A communication by water, which grektly faci- 

 litates its progress, has been already commenced. 

 In several of the port^ barks are employed in the 

 transportation of merchandise, which was before 



The external, which is carried on with all the ports of Ptni, 

 particularly Callao, arises from the exportation of fruits; this 

 amounts to seven hundred thousand dollars, serving not only 

 to counterbalance the importations from that country, but 

 leaving a balance in favonr of CWiU 6i two hundred thousand 

 dollars annually, according to the statements given in the 

 periodical publications of Lima. 



The commerce between Chili and Buenos Ayres is quite 

 otherwise, since for the herb of Paraguay alone it is obliged 

 to advance three buhdred dollars annually, in cash. The 

 other articles received from thence are probably paid for by 

 those sent thither^ ' 



Jn the trade with Spain, the fruits received from Chili go 

 but a little way in payment of more than a million of dollars, 

 which are received from thence annually in European goods, 

 either directly or by the way of Buenos A.yres, and some- 

 times from Lima. Gold, silver, and copper, are the articles 

 which form the whole of this commerce, since the hides and 

 vicugna wool are in such stnall quantities as to render them of 

 little importance. 



The gold, which is coined in Ihfe Capital, is regulated at five 

 thousand two hundred marks annually, whence, by comparing 

 the amount shipped with that coined, as no overplus appears, 

 it is concluded that there i no clandestine extraction, not- 

 withstanding in bullion and in works of use or ornament a 

 Very considerable quantity is expended. 



The silver obtained from the mines is calculated at thirty 

 thousand marks. Of this amount twenty-five thousand is 

 coined yeatly, and the residue employed in the manufacture 

 f table plate, and for various other purposes. The difference 



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