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but makes every sacrifice, and encounters every risk, for the 

 welfare of the subje6t. Thus it was with our intendant, who, 

 in bestowing on his work its highest degree of perfe6lion, by 

 the opening of a convenient road which might faciUtate the 

 traffic and exportation of the productions of Vitoc, was 

 crushed by the fall of a huge tree, and narrowly escaped with 

 his life. As a recompense for his assiduous labours, this zeal- 

 ous minister has, b'y the repopulation of Vitoc, united to the 

 crown a territory which, abstra6ledly considered, is of a con- 

 siderable extent ; has conferred happiness on eighty families 

 who already inhabit that valley ; and has freed the inhabitants 

 of Tarma from the straits to which they were reduced by the 

 want of arable land, and by the nipping frosts. The mineral 

 regions of Yauli and Pasco are no longer at a loss for their 

 supplies of coca and corn. And, in conclusion, upwards of 

 forty plantations, regularly formed, which the fertile Vitoc 

 can already boast, together with the triple crops of coca, 

 cotton, cacao, and various grains, the produce of its exube- 

 rant soil, become a great acquisition both to the sovereign, 

 and to Peru. 



These are not, however, the sole consequences of the talents 

 and persevering industry of Don Juan de Galves. Emulation, 

 the parent of great a6lions, has inspired those who dwell 

 within the limits of the intendency, with an energy to which 

 they were before strangers. The inhabitants of Xauja, de- 

 sirous to be placed on a footing, in point of prosperity, with 

 those of Tarma, solicited him, towards the close of his go- 

 vernment, to further their endeavours for the re-establishment 

 of Monobamba. Under his auspices, the first and greatest 

 difficulties were soon overcome ; and if his worthy successor 



should 



