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convenient for tranÍDortation. Durinp; the aíTienro 

 for negrots, they are ufually brought to Chili from the 

 fadory at Buenos A y res, the way of Peru being at- 

 tended v:>ith great inconveniences ; as in their journey 

 from Panama, they take an opportunity of concealing 

 themfclves among the farm-houfes; fo that what with 

 the great expence, and the numbers who die during 

 their long rout, by the variety of climates, their pur- 

 chafe mull confequently be very high. 



The home commerce of Chili, or that carried on 

 within irfelf, chiefly confifts in the provifions fcnt to 

 Valdii'la to the amount often ihoufand dollars, which 

 as the deduded part of its remittance are fent from 

 Lima to Santiago for that purpofe. Valdivia fur- 

 niilies the reft of the places with cedar. Chiloe pur- 

 chafes from the other parts brandy, wine, honey, fu- 

 gar, the Paraguay herb, fait, and Guinea-pepper; and 

 returns to ^alparaifo and Conception, feveral kinds of 

 fine wood, in which the ifland abounds ; alfo woollen 

 íiuíFs of the country manufaclure, made into ponchos, 

 cloaks, quilts, and the like; together with hams, 

 which from the particular delicacy of the flavour are 

 m great requefi: even in Peru, and dried pilchards, the 

 bay and coaft of that ifland being the only places in 

 the fouch-fea where the ñíh are caught. 



Coquimbo fends copper to Valparaifo; for though 

 all parts of the Cordillera, towards Santiago and Con- 

 ception, abound in mines of that metal, and particu- 

 larly a place called Payen, where feveral were formerly 

 worked, and where maíTcs cf fifty or a hundred quin- 

 tals of pure copper have been found, yet as thefe mines 

 are now no longer worked, the whole country is under 

 a necefiity of receiving their copper from the Co- 

 quimbo and Guafco mines; fending thither in ex-r 

 change cordovan leather and foap, made at Mendoza^ 

 from whence it is carried to Santiago, and thence fold 

 to different parts of the kingdom. 



Havíng thus confidered the trade of Chili in botii 



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