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Excerpt from The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies, Vol. 5 of 5: Containing an Entire Translation of the Spanish Work of Colonel Don Antonio De Alcedo, Captain of the Royal Spanish Guards, and Member of the Royal Academy of History: With Large Additions and Compilations From Modern Voyages and Travels, and From Origina
Ubaque, a head settlement of the district of the corregz'miento of this name, in the new king dom of Granada; it was, during the Pagan ism of the Indians, one of the most powerful principalities belonging to the caciques: at pre sent it contains 200 inhabitants and as many Indians. In its church is venerated with parti cular devotion an image of our Lady painted on canvass, and which after undergoing much injury from time, appeared all at once miraculously re novated. By a rugged spot, called De Zaname, close to the valley in which this settlement stands, there is a stone with the impression. Of a human foot, which, by the tradition of the Indians, is on various authority that of the apostle St. Bartbo lomew. It is seven leagues from Santa Fe.
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