Page:A history of Chile.djvu/124

 112 A HISTORY OF CHILE ward for his services in Chile he was made viceroy of Peru and given the title, Conde de Superunda. Succeeding Manso, were Francisco de Obando and Domingo Ortiz de Rosas, who continued the plan of founding cities and gathering the population of Chile in them. Rosas founded Huasco, Choapo, Petorca, Ligua, Curico, Quirihue and Coelemu. For this ser- vice the king recompensed him with the title of Conde de Poblaciones — Count of Populations. He also under- took to people the island of Juan Fernandez. By authority of his king, Philip V., Rosas estab- lished a university in Santiago, which he called the University of San Felipe, after the king. This was in the year 1747. The first rector of the institution was Tomas de Azua. The college was regular and gave courses with the degrees of Bachelor and Master. A theatre was attached to it in which amateur plays were rendered. The arts, philosophy, and theology were taught, all in bad Latin ; medicine and law were taught in a superficial manner. One result of founding the college, however, was to take some of the educational facilities out of the hands of the monks and Jesuits, who had long been almost the sole instructors of the Chilean youth. Two years after the university of San Felipe had been founded, Rosas established a mint in Santiago, also by authority of the king, and began the work of coining money, both of gold and of silver; from that time the monetary circulation became much more active. It was during Rosas' administration that the third great earthquake occurred, 1751, which destroyed Con- cepcion by a wave of the sea and caused much destruc- tion in Santiago and outlying villages, and in the new cities. Concepcion was reestablished on a new site about two leagues from the sea. An earthquake dur-