Compendium of the Natural and Civil History of Chile

“Here is eternal spring, and summer in months not her own;
Twice the cattle are pregnant, twice the tree is fruitful with apples . . . .
This same land has revealed streams of silver and mines of copper
In its veins, and has flowed with an abundance of gold.”
original: "Hic ver assiduum, atque alienis mensibus aestas; / Bis gravidae pecudes, bis pomis utilis arbos . . . . / Haec eadem argenti rivos, aerisque metalla / Ostendit venis, atque auro plurima fluxit." These lines are from Virgil's Georgics, originally praising Italy, here repurposed to describe the natural wealth of Chile.