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habitants of Guayaquil. It is alio the refidence of a 

 lieutenant and a parifh prieft, having under their in- 

 fpcé^ion the two towns of Santa Lucia and Valfar. 

 Here are a great number of plantations of tobacco 

 and fügar-canes, cacao, and cotton ; together with 

 large orchards of fruit-trees, and extenlive corn- 



fields. 



The river Daule, vi'hicb, like that of Baba, dif- 

 charges itfelf into Guayaquil river, is very large, and 

 on both a great trade is carried on with that city. 

 By the former, it receives the great plenty and va- 

 liety of fummer fruits, and a conliderabie part of the 

 plantanes, which conflitute the bread ufed thpre du- 

 ring the whole year. Though great quantities of to- 

 bacco grow in other parts of the jurifdiélion of Guaya- 

 quil, yet none equals that of Daule. 



The bulinefs of grazing is followed in all thefe 

 lieutenancies ; but more or lefs, in proportion to their 

 extent, the nature of the foil, and the conveniency of 

 driving the cattle to the mountains, beyond the reach 

 of the inundations. 



CHAP. IX. 



Defcription of the River of Guayaquil, and of the 

 Veffels trading on it* 



^ I ^HE river of Guayaquil being the channel of 

 -*■ the commerce of that place, it will be proper 

 to give foine account of it, in order to afiift the rea- 

 der in foni)ing an idea of the trade carried on in that 

 city. 



The diftance oí the navigable part of this river, 

 from the city to the cuftom-houfe at Babahoyo, the 

 place where the goods are landed, is, by thole who 

 have long frequented it, commonly divided into 

 reaches, of which there are twenty, its courfe being 



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