CHAP. VIII.--Productions of the Province of Guayaquil....Cocoa ....Cultivation....Harvest....Tobacco....Timber....Salt....Cattle ....Minor Articles of Trade...._Turbines_ found at Santa Elena ....Large Bones, &c....Animals, _Perico_, _Ligero_....Monkeys ...._Iguanas_....Toucanes...._Trompeteros_....Snakes.... Curiquinqui, Snake-eater...._Huaco_, Antidote for the Bite of Snakes...._Lagartos_, Alligators, Description of....Methods of Killing....Fishermen....Mineral Productions 227 CHAP. IX.--Journey from Guayaquil to Quito....Babaoyo....Road to Chimbo...._Cuesta de San Antonio_....Arrival at Huaranda.... Triumphal Arch and Harangue....Description of Huaranda and Province of Chimbo....Chimboraso....Accident at la Ensillada ....Road to San Juan...._Obrage_ of Indians....Arrival at Riobamba....Description of....Remains of Old Riobamba....Visit to an old Cacique....Province of Riobamba....Road to Ambato ....Description of....Produce....Arrival of Tacunga....Description of....Earthquakes at....Ruins of Callo....Provincial Produce ....Arrival at Chisinchi, Ensillada, and Quito....Remarks 257 CHAP. X.--Quito, Foundation and Situation....Plasa Mayor.... President's Palace, Bishop's Palace and Cathedral....Parishes ....Convents and Public Buildings....Jesuit's College....Convent of San Francisco....San Diego....Santa Prisca....Santa Clara ....University....College of San Luis....Of San Fernando.... Houses....Government....Nobility....Population....White Creoles....Occupation and Education....Character of....Mestisos Persons, Character, Employment....Dress of Creoles....Of Mestisos....Of Indians....Diversions, Bull-fight and Masquerade ....Dancing....Music....Religious Procession....Market, Meat, Fruit and Vegetables....Spirituous Liquors....Ices, Confectionary ....Cheese....Trade and Commerce 279 CHAP. XI.--Visit of the Academicians to Quito in 1736.... Inscription left by....Climate of Quito....View of Mountains at ....Description of Chimboraso....Of Cayambe-urcu....Of Antisana ....Of Cotopaxi....Of Pichincha....Of El Altar....Description of the fertility of the Valleys....Mines....Ruins of Temples, Palaces, and Fortified Places....Account of the Indians....Of Commerce 320