vernment of Tucumán in Peru, which rises in the mountains of the valley of Calchaqui, runs e. and enters the Grande del Salado, between those of Arias and Guachipe.

QUEBRADA HONDA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Tomina in Peru; annexed to the curacy of La Laguna.

QUEBRADA SECA, a settlement of the jurisdiction of the town of Honda, in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada; situate in a mountainous and craggy country, full of swamps, and very unhealthy. It is of an hot temperature, but fertile and abounding in tobacco, cotton, plantains, yucas, potatoes, and sugar-canes. It suffers an incredible epidemy of mosquitoes, toads, snakes, and spiders; and a great scarcity of flesh-meat from want of cattle and pastures: and thus it is only inhabited by some mountaineers and uncivilised beings, who should amount to about 200.

QUEBRADA SECO, another settlement, in the province and government of Maracaibo in that kingdom. It belongs to the jurisdiction of the city of Barinas; is of an hot temperature, very poor and miserable, producing only cacao, tobacco, sugar-canes, maize, and yucas, of which the natives make cazave. It is situate on the shore of the river Paragua, to the e. of the city of Pedraza.

QUEBRADAS, River of the, in the island of St. Domingo. It is small, runs in in the e. head, and enters the sea in the bay of Barbacoas.

QUECAS, a barbarous nation of Indians of the Nuevo Reyno de Granada, who dwell to the e. of the ancient province of Guatavita, in a territory very hot but fertile. Their customs and qualities are altogether unknown.

QUECHITALLA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Parinacochas in Peru; annexed to the curacy of Salamanca, in the province of Condesuyos de Arequipa.

QUECHOLAC, a valley of the province and alcaldía mayor of Tepeaca in Nueva España: peopled by Popolocas Indians, who have a tradition that their ancestors killed, without knowing him, at the beginning of the conquest of the kingdom, the Licentiate Juan Diaz, a clergyman, who accompanied Hernan Cortes, and who was the first ecclesiastic in that kingdom who exercised the office of curate.

QUECHOLLAN, a settlement of the province and alcaldía mayor of Guazacoalco in Nueva España. Its natives rose against the Spaniards, after that they had entered into a friendly alliance with them, and when they had found them

selves under the necessity of departing from Mexico, through the death of Moctezuma; but they were conquered and reduced to obedience by Gonzalo de Sandoval.

QUECHUA, a very numerous nation of Indians of the kingdom of Peru in the time of the Incas. It comprehended all the provinces on either shore of the river Amancay, which the Spaniards call Abancay; and was conquered and subjected to the empire by the Inca Capac Yupanqui, fifth emperor, and proved itself so faithful in the conquest of the Chancas, that when Viracocha commanded the army of his father Yahuarhuaca, they marched out to his succour without being called together; and thus have they obtained the privilege that their caciques should use their own tiara; although they were to go bald and use ear-rings, with other certain restrictions to distinguish them from the Incas. The general idiom of Peru took its name from this nation of Quechuas; the same being generally spoken throughout that kingdom.

QUECHOLTENANGO, a settlement and head settlement of the district, and alcaldía mayor of Chilapa in Nueva España. It contains 31 families of Indians, and is six leagues w. of its capital.

QUECHULA, a settlement and head settlement of the district of the alcaldía mayor of Tepeaca in Nueva España; situate in a beautiful llanura, near a mountain. It is very scarce of water, and that which is drank is provided from a well, but which, although thick, is wholesome. It has besides the parish-church a convent of the religious of San Francisco. The population is composed of 112 families of Spaniards, 200 of Mustees, 20 of Mulattoes, and 400 of Indians. In its district are various cultivated estates; and it is four leagues e. of its capital.

QUEDO, a small river of St. Domingo, which rises in the mountains to the s. of the city of La Vega, runs n. and enters the Camu.

[QUEECHY, a river of Vermont, which emp ties into Connecticut River at Hartland.]

[QUEEN ANNE, a small town of Prince George County, Maryland; situated on the w. side of Patuxent River, across which a wooden bridge is built. The town is small, but is laid out in a regular plan, at the foot of a hill. Here are a few stores, and two warehouses for the inspection of tobacco. It is about 13 miles e. s. e. of the city of Washington, 14 s. w. of Annapolis, and 26 s. by w. of Baltimore.]

[QUEEN ANNE's, a county of Maryland;

bounded w. by Chesapeak Bay, and n. by Kent County. It contains 15,463 inhabitants, including 6,674 slaves. Chief town, Centerville. Kent Island belongs to this county; 14 miles in length from n. to S., and 6 in breadth from e. to w. It is low, but fertile land, and its e. side is bordered with salt marsh.]

[QUEEN CHARLOTTE's Islands, on the n.w.coast of N. America, extend from lat. 52° to 54° 20′ n. and from long. 130° 40′ to 133° 18′ w. from Greenwich. It is named Washington Isle by American navigators.

[QUEEN'S, the middle county of Long Island, New York. Lloyd's Neck, or Queen's Village, and the islands called the Two Brothers and Hallett's Islands, are included in this county. It is about 30 miles long, and 12 broad, and contains six townships, and 16,014 inhabitants, including 2039 slaves. Jamaica, Newtown, Hampstead, in which is a handsome court-house, and Oyster Bay, are the principal towns in this county. The county court-house is eight miles from Jamaica, 10 from Jericho, and 20 from New York.]

[QUEEN'S, a county of Nova Scotia, comprehending a part of the lands on the cape, on the s. side of the Bay of Fundy. The settlements are as follow: Argyle, on the s. side of the Bay of Fundy, where a few Scotch and Acadians reside: next to this is Yarmouth, settled chiefly by emigrants from New England; Barrington, within the island called Cape Sable, settled originally by Quakers from Nantucket. Besides these are Port Raisoir, so called by the French, and originally settled by the North Irish; Liverpool and Port Roseway, settled and inhabited by emigrants from New England.]

[QUEENSBURY, a township in Washington County, New York; bounded e. by Westfield and Kingsbury, and s. by Albany County. It contains 1080 inhabitants, of whom 122 are electors.]

[QUEENSTOWN, in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, a small town on the e. side of Chester River, six miles s. w. of Centerville, and nearly 21 e. of Annapolis.]

[QUEENSTOWN, in Upper Canada, lies on the w. side of the Straits of Niagara, near Fort Niagara, and nine miles above the falls.]

QUEHUE, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Tinta, or Canes and Canches, in Peru; annexed to the curacy of Checa.

QUELENDANA, a chain of mountains, and part of the cordillera of the Andes, in the province and corregimiento of Tacunga of the kingdom of

Quito. It runs to e. n. e., and to s. e. of the volcano of Cotopaxi. These mountains are extremely lofty, and covered all the year with snow.

QUELENES, Mountains of, in the province and alcaldía mayor of Chiapa, and kingdom of Guatemala, very lofty and craggy; and although some pass them in their rout to Nueva España, yet this is not without exposing themselves to the dangers of great precipices, as also to the very strong winds which prevail in these parts. From them flow down many streams and rivulets which fertilize and render pleasant and fruitful the ssettlement of Tapanatepeque, which is situate on their skirt. One of these mountains is much loftier than the rest; and it is that by which the road passes, called Maquilapa, near the settlement of its name, which in the idiom of the Indians signifies Bald-pate, a name very properly applied to it. Thomas Gage, an Irish monk, who wrote the voyage which he made to this part of America, exaggerates the dangers which he suffered in passing these mountains. These mountains are about 40 miles to the s. of the city of Chiapa.

QUELEPA, SANTIAGO DE, a settlement of the province and alcaldía mayor of S. Miguel in the kingdom of Guatemala; annexed to the curacy of S. Alexo of the valley of Moncagua.

QUELLCA, a great llanura of the province and corregimiento of Santa in Peru, which extends itself from n. to s. by the coast of the Pacific or S. Sea. It is unpeopled, as being barren and of a very hot climate.

QUEMA, a river of the province and country of Las Amazonas, in the part possessed by the Portuguese. It runs e. and enters the Puru or Cuchwara, opposite the arm of the Paratani.

QUEMADA, a small island of the S. Sea; situate within the bay of the island Malvini or Falkland. The French call it Pingovins.

QUEMADO, a small port on the coast of the S. Sea, of the province and corregimiento of Ica, and kingdom of Peru; five leagues distant from that town: the road to it being most delightful, and through pleasant meadows. At this port touch small vessels coming from Chile and Callao. In lat. 14° 20' s.

QUEMADO, another port, also in the S. Sea, of the province and government of Darien, and kingdom of Tierra Firme, close to the Bay of Palmar.

QUEMAHONING, a small river of the province of Virginia in N. America, which runs w. and enters the Loil-hanning.

QUEMARA, or QUEMARU, according to the engineer Francis Bellin, a small lake of the province and country of Las Amazonas, in the territory possessed by the Portuguese. It is formed by the waste water from the river Marañon, on the side of another lake, between the rivers Coari and Cuchivara.

QUEMARA, a river of the same province as the former lake; an arm which runs from the Purú or Cuchivara, and enters the Marañon.

QUEMES, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Lipes, and archbishopric of Charcas in Peru; annexed to the curacy of the settlement of San Christóval.

QUENDI, a small river of the province and government of Paraguay, which runs w. and enters the Paraná, between those of the Ibida and Capui.

QUENE, a fort of Canada, in the territory of the Eries Indians, and on the confines of Pennsylvania; built by the French on the shore of the river Ohio in 1754.

QUENEBANG, a river of the province of Massachusetts in N. America; one of the four which form New England. It rises from a small lake, runs s. and enters the sea opposite the e. head of Long Island.

QUENEQUE, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Carabaya in Peru; annexed to the curacy of its capital.

QUENTEPEC, SAN SEBASTIAN DE, a settlement of the head settlement of the district of Huitepéc, and alcaldía mayor of Quauhnahuac or Cuernavaca in Nueva España; containing 62 Indian families.

QUENTO, a lake of the province and country of the Iroquees Indians. It is formed from the waste water of that of Toronto, in its mid-course to enter the Ontario.

QUEPE, a river of the district of Boroa in the kingdom of Chile. See PLAL.

QUEPETI, a river of the province and government of Darien in the kingdom of Tierra Firme. It rises in the mountains of the n. coast, and enters the N. Sea in the Bay of Mandinga, opposite the isle of Broquel.

QUERACOTO, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Caxamarca in Peru; annexed to the curacy of Huambos.

QUERCO, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Castro-Virreyna in the same kingdom as the former; annexed to the curacy of Córdoba.

QUERETARO, a province and corregimiento of Nueva España; of a benign temperature, very

fertile, and abounding in wheat, maize, barley, and other fruits, of which it gathers very large crops, in 96 estates within its district; where also it has 23 workshops; in which the natives fabricate very fine cloths, serges, coarse cloths, and various other woollen commodities, from the number of sheep which graze in its fields. Also from the skins of other animals they make very good leather, and maintain in all the above artiticles a great commerce with the other provinces and districts. This province was called in the time of the gentilism of the Indians, Othomi and Chichimeca, as it was peopled by these two nations, who were conquered by the Spaniards in 1531, after that they had defended themselves valorous, until their ultimate defeat in a battle which, as the tradition goes, was carried against them, by the apostle St. James in person. The population consists of the following settlements:

San Juan del Rio,
San Sebastian,
Sta. Maria Amealco,
San Miguel,
Tholimanejo,
San Pedro Ahuatlan,
San Bartolomé del
Pino,

S. Juan de Guedo,
San Pablo,

Santa Maria Tequisquiapan,

S. Miguel de Thi, San Pedro Tholimán, San Antonio..

QUERETARO, the capital, is the city of the same name, with the dedicatory title of Santiago; situate on the skirt of a mountain plain, called the Cerro de Santa Cruz, and extending, as to the greater part of its population, to the e. part. It is one of the most beautiful and opulent cities in all the kingdom, and the largest after Mexico, [to the intendancy of which it belongs.] From n. to s. it is sheltered by a mountain; and from thence begins its celebrated glen, where the delightful fields and shady groves are irrigated by a large river; the waters of the same being introduced by means of hidden aqueducts, which are reduced to twelve currents running from the mother stream; the water being thus let in upon 2000 houses, to the which are attached gardens, abounding in a thousand kinds of fruits and flowers, as well European as American. It has three grand squares; from the which extend all the streets, running to the four cardinal points. Here is also one celebrated channel for carrying the water to the city, upon more than 40 arches of 35 yards high, a work which owed its execution to the diligence of the Marquis of Villar del Aguila, and in which 114,000 dollars were spent.

The parish church is magnificent and very rich,

and one of the curacies, the most flourishing of any in the kingdom, and having annexed to it two other chapels of ease. It is further adorned by another most sumptuous temple of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, in which the principal altar is entirely of silver; and there is also in this church the chapter. Here are three convents of the religious of San Francisco; one of the Observers, another of the Bare-footed Recoletans of St. Diego, and the third of Santa Cruz, which is the apostolical college of the missionaries; also the convents of San Agustin, Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, the Barefooted Carmelites, and a college which belonged to the Jesuits, where the public hall and schools were. Here are a royal hospital, and a convent of San Hipolito, of the order of La Caridad; and three monasteries of nuns, which are of Santa Clara, Las Capuchinas, and Santa Rosa. The principal convent of San Francisco is the parish of the Indians, and has five chapels of ease, and different hermitages and minor chapels.

This city is inhabited by 3000 families of Spaniards, Mustees, and Mulattoes, and nearly as many more Otomies Indians; so that its population is reputed at 47,000 souls, amongst whom are many illustrious and rich families. [Humboldt states its habitual population at only 35,000. It contains 11,600 Indians, 85 secular ecclesiastics, 181 monks, and 143 nuns. The consumption of Queretaro (observes the same author) amounted in 1793 to 13,618 cargas of wheaten flour, 69,445 fanegas of maize, 656 cargas of Chile (capsicum), 1770 barrels of brandy, 1682 beeves, 14,949 sheep, and 8869 hogs. Its height is 1940 metres.]

In this city are many work-shops, in which are fabricated fine cloths, baizes, serges, &c. a great number of shops and stalls furnished with all sorts of provisions; and also tanneries, in which they dress leather and make belts. This city is also filled with orchards and gardens, which make it rich and abundant in every thing that can supply to the necessities or luxuries of life. Ninety-five miles n. w. from Mexico, in lat. 20° 38′ n. and long. 100° 11' w.

QUERO, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Riobamba in the kingdom of Quito, belonging to the district and jurisdiction of the asiento of Ambato ; situate s.e. of the river Pachanlica. Its woods abound in cedar trees of excellent quality, the which, and the singular genius and application of its natives in imitating whatsoever they see, have made them perfect artificers of tables, saddles, writing desks, bureaus,

and other articles of furniture, in a manner such as to vie with the same articles of English manufacture; and with these they supply the whole kingdom. In its district are two large and flourishing estates, called Mumul and Guayamo, in lat. 1° 26' s.

QUERO, another settlement, in the province and corregimiento of Caxamarquilla in Peru; annexed to the curacy of the settlement of Chila. QUEROBAMBA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Lucanas in Peru.

QUEROMACA, a settlement of the province and government of Jaen de Bracamoros in the kingdom of Quito.

QUESALTENANGO, a province and alcaldía mayor of the kingdom of Guatemala in N. America. It is of limited extent, but very populous in Indians. The greater part is a serrania; în the which are found mines of alum, and very fine sulphur; of which the Spaniards made use in the conquest of the kingdom for manufacturing gunpowder. The Indians of this province were subjected by Captain Pedro de Alvarado, by order of Hernan Cortes, in 1523, after many combats, as they were very valorous.

The settlements of which this jurisdiction consists are the following: Sta. Catalina Sunil,

San Pedro,
Santa Maria,
San Mateo,
Cantel,

San Juan Ostumalco,
Chiquirichapa,
San Martin,

San Miguel,

Tajumulco, Ixtaguacán,

Tuttuapa,

Zicapaca,

San Pedro Zacatepe

que,

San Antonio,

San Christóval,
Santiago Catepeque,

San Christóval de Ca- San Pablo,
Santa Lucía,
Comitán.

bricán, Valle de Sixa, Santiago Tejutla, In all the which there are near 12,000 Indians of different nations.

QUESALTENANGO, the capital, is the settlement of the same name, with the dedicatory title of Espiritu Santo, and being the residence of the alcalde mayor. It was a curacy of the religious of San Francisco, until that the king ordained that there should be none but the regular clergy in America.

QUESCOMATE, SANTA MARIA DE, a settlement of the head settlement of the district of Santa Isabel, of the alcaldía mayor of Cholula in Nueva España. It contains 110 families of Indians, and is half a league w. of its head settlement.

QUESNE, a fort of the French, built by the Marquis of Quesne, who gave it his name; on the shores of the river Ohio, in the territory of the province of Pennsylvania, 232 miles w. of Philadelphia. The English army, commanded by General Braddock, was routed in 1755, nine miles from this fort; the which was taken from the French in 1760, notwithstanding the many fortifications which the former had made; and its name was then changed to Pittsburg. In lat. 40° 26′ 30′′ n. Long. 80. w. See PITTSBURG.

QUETZALA, SAN JUAN DE, a settlement of the head settlement of the district of Escateopan, and alcaldía mayor of Zaqualpa in Nueva España. It contains 86 families of Indians.

QUETZALAPA, a settlement of the head settlement of the district, and alcaldía mayor of Igualapa in the same kingdom as the former. One league n. of its capital.

QUETZALAPAN, a settlement and head settlement of the district, and alcaldía mayor of Teutila in the same kingdom as the former. It is of an hot temperature, contains 20 families of Indians, who trade in woven cotton fabrics, and is 16 leagues s. of its capital.

QUETZUAPA, a settlement of the head settlement of the district and alcaldía mayor of Tlapa in Nueva España. It contains 50 families of Mexican Indians, who cultivate some seeds, cochineal, and cotton.

QUEULE, a river of the kingdom of Chile, which runs s. of the city Imperial; 18 leagues from this city, and the boundary of its territory and jurisdiction by that part. It makes a serpentine course, and enters the sea to the n. of the city of Valdivia.

QUEULE, a point of land, which is one of those formed by the above river in its entrance into the sea.

QUXEMIS, a river of the province and government of Guayaquil, in the kingdom of Quito, which disembogues itself into the S. Sea.

QUEZALTEPEC, S. MIGUEL DE, a settlement of the head settlement of the district of Coatlán, and alcaldía mayor of Nexapa in the same kingdom as the former. It contains 212 families of Indians, who trade in cochineal, cotton, chile, and seeds. Two leagues n. of its head settlement.

QUEZALTEPEC, another settlement, in the province and alcaldía mayor of S. Salvador, in the kingdom of Guazacoalco in Nueva España: one of those which took up arms against the Spaniards after the death of Moctezuma: conquered and reduced to obedience by Gonzalo de Sandoval.

QUEZALUTIA, a province of the kingdom of Guatemala, in the time of the Indians. The Spaniards call it, at the present day, Los Desalados; and it is near the Lake of Terminos.

QUEZATLAPAN, a great and navigable river of the province and alcaldía mayor of Tabasco in Nueva España. It is the same as that which was discovered by Juan de Grijalba, who gave it his name. By it the Spaniards used to go down to bring victuals and succour to Hernan Cortes, when he made the journey of Honduras, to chastise Christóval de Olid, who had risen against him. This river enters the Tabasco to run into the sea.

QUIABAYA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Larecaxa in Peru.

It was

QUIABISLAN, a settlement and capital of the district of this name, which is bounded by the province of Zempoala in Nueva España. In this place abode Hernan Cortes with his people, when he undertook the conquest of Mexico, and was amicably received by its cacique. situate on an eminence of rocks, which made it very strong, and was only accessible by some narrow passages. In this town Hernan Cortes took the commissaries of Moctezuma, who were collecting tribute; and he gave them up to their cacique, on account of their admitting the Spaniards without permission from the emperor.

QUIACA, a settlement of the province and corregimiento of Carabay in Peru; annexed to the curacy of the town of San Juan del Oro.

QUIAMARE, a settlement of the province of Barcelona and government of Cumaná, in the kingdom of Nueva Andalucia; one of those which are under the care of the religious observers of San Francisco, the missionaries of Piritu; situate on the shore of the river Neveri, having been founded in 1746 by Fr. Lucas Magariños, who catechized 58 Caribes Indians, whose numbers afterwards increased. He chose the spot which was called Quiamare, from a cacique who lived there in former times; this being a word corrupted from Piamare, and having added to it the dedicatory title of La Virgen de los Dolores. Its territory is very fertile, woody, and abounding in vegetable productions. It had the misfortune of being destroyed by fire a little after its foundation; but it was afterwarde rebuilt, and is 14 miles n. n. e. from the settlement of San Mateo, and 27 s. of Barcelona.

QUIANNA, a settlement of the province of Moqui in the kingdom of Nuevo Mexico.

QUIATORI, a principal and head settlement of the district of the alcaldía mayor of