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Rh iron which she carried on her head to be the boundary between them.

Villagra describes it as something like the back of a tortoise in shape, and in weight about eight hundred quintales; He calls it massy iron, "hierro bien mazizo y amasado;" it was smooth without the slightest rust, and there was neither mine near it, nor vein of metal, nor any kind of stone any way resembling it.

Y como quien de vista es buen testigo, Digo que es un metal tan puro y liso, Y tan limpio de orin como si fuera, Una refina plata de Capella. Y lo que mas admira nuestra caso, Es que no vemos genero de veta, Horrumbra, quemazon, o alguna piedra. Con cuia fuerça muestre y nos paresca Averse el gran mojon alli criado. Canto 2. ff. 10. 