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the wildeft bull, and all the efforts of the 

 beaft could not throw them. This coun- 

 try produces all forts of metals ; it is 

 famous for gold, filver, iron, tin, lead, 

 and quickfilver ; but fome of thefe they 

 do not underftand working, efpecially 

 quickfilver. With copper they fupply 

 all Peru, and fend, likewife, a great deal 

 to Europe. The climate of Chili is, I 

 believe, the fined in the world. What 

 they call their winter does not laft three 

 months -, and even that is very moderate, 

 as may be imagined by their manner 

 of building, for they have no chimneys 

 in their houfes. All the reft of the year 

 is delightful ; for though from ten or 

 eleven in the morning till five in the 

 afternoon, it is very hot, yet the even- 

 ings and mornings are very cool and 

 pleafant ; and in the hotteft time of the 

 year, it is from fix in the evening 

 till two or three in the morning, that 

 the people of this country meet to di- 

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