The estates, empires, & principallities of the world Represented by ye description of countries, maners of inhabitants, riches of prouinces, forces, gouernment, religion; and the princes that haue gouerned in euery estate. With the begin[n]ing of all militarie and religious orders. Translated out of French by Edw: Grimstone, sargeant at armes.

¶ The Qualitie and Riches.

THis new realme of Granado is for the most part full of pleasing valleis, which beare [ D] much fruit: it is wonderfull strong of scituation by reason of the rockie mountaines which ••n••iron it, and therfore they haue verie narrow passages. In some places they make salt of pal••e trees and of v••ine. Neere vnto Tungie there are mines of gold and eme∣ralds, and ••e••re vnto the Cape of the Three Points, they find store of pearles: they con∣sum•• many men i•• the fishing of them; for that the sea water (whereas the oisters in which pea•••••• ••o grow, and are tied to rockes) is exceeding cold, and sometimes the fishermen must continue a quarter of an houre vnder water and hold their breaths: wher∣fore their maisters suffer them to eat little, and keep them from women, and the meat they eat is very drie. The pearles grow in the fish of oisters, and it seldome happens that they find two tha•• are like by reason whereof the Latines haue called them Vniones. The [ E] price is much aba••ed, by reason of the great quantitie which they of the New World haue s••nt into Europe: for in the fleet of the yere 1587 there came for the king of Spain seuenteene markes, besides three chests; and for priuat men, one thousand two hundred sixtie and foure markes, and seuen small sackes of pearle by the ounce. In former times they tooke much in the Island of Cubaque; but they hold that the oisters haue beene consumed by the perpetuall fishing, or whither that being terrified with the noise of ar∣•••••••• they haue changed their place of being, or that they haue abandoned the enter∣p•••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••••••son of an Earthquake which did ruine a good part of the towne, where there 〈…〉〈…〉 course of people▪ it 〈…〉〈…〉 abundance as there was wont to be 〈…〉〈…〉 ••••meralds, the price is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fallen, by reason of the great store they draw [ F] here, and 〈…〉〈…〉 about Mante, and at Po••••ueil.