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quainted him with my difgrace in England, he 

 lb conduced himfelf, that if we had not imme- 

 diately failed he would have had fome caufe to 

 repent his illiberality. 



Such was the return he made for my having 

 embroiled myfelf with my beft friend, the Go- 

 vernor General ! This was the man, my com- 

 plaifance for whom tempted me to throw my- 

 felf into a pofition of refiftance againft the re- 

 prefentative, the kinfman of Majefty ! and when 

 anger, at the indignit-ies offered me by this 

 oriental mulhroom, extorted from me a letter 

 the didates of paffion ! this was the man who 

 could cooly fend it to the Intendant of Police 

 in Portugal, from whom I afterwards received 

 it among other papers. 



If it may be allowed a man who has feen al- 

 moft all the world, and been an attentive ob- 

 ferver of what he has feen, to judge, Brazil is 

 the richeft country in the world ; for though 

 fome may more abound in particular commo- 

 dities, none produces in fuch plenty every thing 

 neceifary for life. Of the articles ufuafly ex- 

 ported I have already fpoken ; but in my excur- 

 fions into the country (and the Portuguefe al- 

 low that no European ever faw fo much of it,) 

 I found it vaftly richer than I expedcd. The 

 beft and moft various kinds of timber abound 

 Ji.ere, and of phefe I carefully collefted and pre- 

 fer ved 



