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It is a matter of regret, but not of surprize, that the fourth 

 and last part of the above Dissertation was suppressed by the 

 very authority, the chief magistrate of Peru, whom the au- 

 thor comphments in closing his third part. That any por- 

 tion of such a dissertation should have been allowed to meet 

 the public view, under a government similar to that of the 

 Spanish colonics, must appear extraordinary to those who 

 have paid any attention to its contents. The destru6tion of 

 the Indian tribes, in consequence of the hard labours to which 

 they are subje6led by the oppressive service of the mitaj and 

 which, combined with other circumstances, threaten their 

 speedy extermination ; the avowal, at the same time, that 

 they are indispensably necessary to the prosperity of the mines ; 

 the inconsiderable produce of the mines themselves, when 

 compared with the advantages that might be derived from 

 them ; and the cruelties exercised on the wretched negroes ; 

 are points which it is well to know, but which, it might have 

 been expe6led, prudence, or the mandate of authority, would 

 have concealed. The Academical Society of Lima has at- 

 tempted to excuse the omission of the fourth part of the Dis- 

 sertation, by the following 



APPENDIX. 



In the preceding Dissertation, the fruit of the medita- 

 tions, and of the eloquent pen of our Cephalio, it has been 

 deemed necessary to omit various particulars, which, how- 

 ever they may be adapted to a ministerial work, are superior 

 to the comprehension and limits of a periodical . publication, 

 similar to that of the Peruvian Mercury. A reform which 



should 



