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COMMERCE. 



herb of Paraguay ; but in such inconsiderable quantities as not 

 to derange the preceding estimate. 



But the inland commerce of the produ6lions introduced by 

 the departments of the intendencies of Arequipa and Cuzco, 

 into the above jurisdidtion of Buenos-Ayres, by the interme- 

 diate stations of the cities of Potosi and Chuquisaca, amounted 

 to the sum of two miUions thirty-four thousand nine hundred 

 and eighty piastres. Of this sum one million three hundred 

 thousand four hundred and seventy-five piastres, belonged to 

 the provinces of Arequipa, for brandies ; wines of the growth 

 of the vallies of Locumba, Mages, and Victor ; maize ; 

 wheaten flour ; cotton ; oil ; pimento ; sugars ; and other 

 produdlions of less import. The remainder, amounting to 

 seven hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and five 

 piastres, belonged to the intendency of Cuzco, for baizes, and 

 other woollen manufa6tures ; sugars ; grains, &c. In re- 

 turn, the intendency of Arequipa received from Buenos-Ayres 

 the amount of three hundred and eighty-nine thousand two 

 hundred and sixty piastres, in cattle, dried flesh, wool, tal- 

 low, cocoa, copper, tin, &c. That of Cuzco received from 

 the above jurisdidlion the value of four hundred and seventy- 

 five thousand five hundred and thirty piastres, in mules ; 

 sheep*; black cattle ; hides ; wax ; soap ; tallow ; baizes, &c. 

 The result, in favour of the intendency of Arequipa, was 

 nine hundred and eleven thousand two hundred and fifteen 



* III the year referred to, that of 1789, a hundred and twenty thousand sheep 

 were imported, by the route of Cuzco, from the jurisdiflion of Buenos-Ayres 

 - into that of Lima, into which twenty thousand mules are annually introduced, 

 from the provinces of La Sierra, annexed to the former of these jurisdidlions. 



piastres ; 



