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Public, in a Work which professes to communicate new 

 information respecting a portion of South America, now 

 more than ever interesting to the commercial, political, and 

 scientific worlds. Whatever faults it possesses, the pains I 

 have taken to obtain authentic information will, I trust, 

 render it not unworthy of their and 3^our Lordship's notice. 

 If the style in which I present the new fruit, gathered from 

 the branches of the tree of knowledge that are spread in 

 a far country, is not considered interesting, the fruit itself 

 will be found, I hope, acceptable and useful. 



I have the honour to subscribe myself. 

 My Lord, 

 Your Lordship's most faithful and 

 devoted Servant, 



JAMES HENDERSON. 



London, August \, 1821. 



