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thod. If, therefore, in a few cafes, I differ two or three years from the Jefuits in their firft account of this country, I do not in any fhape believe the fault to be mine, becaufe there are, at all thefe periods, errors in point of fact, both in Alva- rez and Tellez, much more material and unaccountable than the miflake of a few years ; and thefe errors have been adop- ted with great confidence in the Hifpania Illuftrata, and fame of the beft books of Portuguefe hiftory which have made mention of this country.
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