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The mules of Chili are the fincfl: ia 

 the world ; and though they are conti- 

 nually upon the road, and have nothing 

 but what they pick up at nights, they 

 are as fat and fleek as high-fed horfes in 

 England, The fourth night, we lay 

 upon a plain in fight of St. Jago, and not 

 above four leagues from it. The next 

 day, as we moved towards the city, our 

 mafler-carrier, who was naturally well 

 difpofed, and had been very kind to us 

 all the way upon the road, advifed me, 

 very ferioufly, not to think of remain- 

 ing in St Jago, where he faid there was 

 nothing but extravagance, vice, and folly, 

 but to proceed on with them as mule- 

 driver, which, he faid, I fhould foon be 

 very expert at ; and that they led an 

 innocent and happy life, far preferable to 

 any enjoyment fuch a great city as that 

 before us could afford. I thanked him, 

 and told him I was very much obliged 

 to him j but that I would try the city firft, 



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