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Chili.* The Spaniards at present established in 

 this Archipelago amount to about fifteen thou- 

 sand, and its commerce is conducted by means of 

 three or four ships which trade there annually 

 from Peru and Chili. To these they sell large 

 quantities of red cedar boards, timber of different 

 kinds suitable for carriages, upwards of two 

 thousand ponchos of various qualities, hams, pil- 

 chards, dried shell-fish, white cedar boxes, cloaks^ 

 eubroidered girdles, and a small quantity of am- 

 bergris which is found upon the shores; and 

 receive in exchange, wine, brandy, tobacco, sugar, 

 herb of Paraguay, salt, and several kinds of 

 European f goods. 



* The temporal government of these islands at the present' 

 time (1792) is vested in the viceroyalty of Lima. Spanish 

 Trans. 



t For a farther account of the Archipelago of Chilce, see 

 the Appendix. . E. 



