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DEDICATION. 



benefit to the general interests of trade, and 

 will also have the effect, if adopted, of bringing 

 remote regions of the globe full of natural 

 resources, more under the influence of a better 

 social and political atmosphere. 



Mr. Wheelwrights long experience of those 

 countries entitles his opinions to considerable 

 weight, and I may add, that the respect 

 entertained for his character by all the 

 British merchants in South America with 

 whom he has been in the habit of frequent 

 intercourse, and their attachment to him per- 

 sonally, founded on a knowledge of his integrity 

 and prudence, and of his character for indefati- 

 gable zeal in whatever he undertakes, seem to 

 render this gentleman a most efficient person 

 for carrying so important a design into exe- 

 cution. 



If I have yielded to the solicitation of others 

 in mixing up with more worthy topics my own 

 personal narrative, it was not from the desire 

 of reputation as an author, to which I have 



