Ch. IX. SOUTH AMERICA. 1273 



All the gold thus colleded in Chili is brought 

 up in the country, and fcnc to Lima to be coined, 

 there being no mint in Chili} and by the accounts 

 confianriy taken, it amounts one year with another 

 to fix hundred thoufand dollars ; but that clandef- 

 tinely fent by way of the Cordillera is faid to be 

 nearly four hundred thoufand. Confequently the 

 whole muit be at leaft a million. In the countries of 

 Coquimbo and Guafco mines of all kinds of metals 

 are to very common, that the whole earth feems 

 wholly compofed of minerals j and it is here thofe 

 ofconprrare worked, and from them all Peru and 

 the kinordom of Chili are furniilied with that metal. 



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But though this copper exceeds every thing of the 

 kind hitherto known, the mines are worked with 

 great caution, and no more metal extraóled than 

 is fuincient to anf^vcr the ufual demand ; and other 

 mines, though known to be equally rich, are hit 

 untouched. 



In exchange for the grain, fruits, provifions, and 

 metals, which Chili fends to Peru, it receives iron, 

 cloth, and linen made at Qijito, hats, bays, though 

 not many of the latter, there being manufaótureí 

 of the fame kind in Chili, iugar, cacao, fweetmeats, 

 pickles, tobacco, oil, earthen ware, and álí kinds 

 of European goods. A Imall commerce is alfo 

 carried on between the kingdom of Chili, Paraguay 

 and Buenos Ayres, of which the latter is the ftaple. 

 The produfts of Paraguay, which indeed confift 

 only in its herb and uax, arc cairied thither, then 

 forwarded to Chili- whence the herb is exported to 

 Peru. Large quantities of tallow are alio fent to 

 Mendoza for making of foap. In exchange for tbcfc 

 commodities Chili lends to Buenos Ayres linen and 

 woollen ñuíFs, fome of which are imported from 

 Peru, and others manufaftuicd in the country : 

 alfo ponchos, fugar, íhufF, wine and brandy, the 

 two laft the traders chiefly buy at San Juan, as moft 



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