vi The PREFACE. 



reigners but thoroughly let into the £e~ 

 cret of thefe Things, they might, upon 

 Occafion, come to Refolutions of more 

 pernicious Confequence to the Spaniard, 

 than they either imagine, or he, per* 

 haps y apprehends. 



But^ are, for the mop part, hur* 

 ried away with Notions y which have 

 heen chiefly propagated from Spain, and 

 are apt to believe, the three King* 

 doms of Mexico, Peru and Chili, are 

 fo many Empires of endlefs Riches, and 

 infinite 'People, and consequently, out of 

 all 'Danger if any material T)tfturbance 

 from without. Thus is it, we have, for 

 the moft part, brought ourfelves to 

 think, tho we have often and often been 

 told, by Men of indifputable Veracity, 

 and very fujficient Experience, that the 

 Thing is nothing lefs than fo. 



And among*thefe we are now to 

 number oar . prefent Traveller, who 

 informs us, of his own Knowledge, that 



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