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in a general [cnk^ we not having entered into many 

 particulars made or produced in fome towns, and 

 riot common to others ; as may be obler'/ed in the 

 defcription of Quito. But thefe accounts drawn from 

 our own experience, and the relations of perfons 

 of undoubted veracity, we hope will not prove un- 

 acceptable to the reader, who is defirous of forming 

 a true idea of thefe parts, which for their riches, 

 fertility, prodigious extent, and many other particu- 

 lars, m.erit the greateft attention ; efpecially for the 

 amazing fuccefs which has attended the propagation 

 of the chriftian religion, in countries formerly in- 

 volved in ignorance and inhumanity.* 



* It is fuppofed, that the kings of Spain and Portugal have 

 five times the number of fubjefts in their American fettlements 

 than in their refpe^live kingdoms. Notwithftanding which you 

 mny travel in America 20 leagues together and not fee a hut, 

 except you aie in the neighbourhood of forae of the great towns : 

 fo great are the trads of land poiTefied by each prince. A. 



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