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convenient for tranfportation. During the afliento 

 for negroes, they are ufually brought to Chili from 

 the fadory at Buenos Ayres, the way of Peru be- 

 ing attended with great inconveniences ; as in their 

 journey from Panama, they take an opportunity of 

 concealing themfeives among the farm-houfes ; fo 

 that what with the great expence, and the numbers 

 who die during their long rout, by the variety of cli- 

 mates, their purchafe muft confequently be very high. 



The home commerce of Chili, or that carried oa 

 within itfelf, chiefly confifts in the provifions fent to 

 Valdivia to the amount of ten thoufand dollars, which 

 as the deduded part of its remittance are fent from 

 Lima to Santiago for that purpofe. Valdivia fur- 

 nifhes the reft of the places with cedar. Chiloe pur- 

 chafes from the other parts brandy, wine, honey, fugar, 

 the Paraguay herb, fait and Guinea-pepper and re- 

 turns to Valparaifo and Conception, feveral kinds of 

 fine wood, in which the ifland abounds; alfo woollen 

 ftuffs of the country manufadure, made into ponchos, 

 cloaks, quilts, and the like ; together with hams,' 

 which from the particular delicacy of the flavour are' 

 in great requeft even in Peru, and dried pilchards, the 

 bay and coaft of that ifland being the only places in 

 the fouth-fea where the flfli are caught. 



CoQuiiMBO fends copper to Valparaifo ; for tho' all 

 parts of the Cordillera, towards Santiago and Con- 

 ception, abound in mines of that metal, and particu- 

 larly a place called Payen, where feveral were formerly 

 worked, and v/here mafl^es of fifty or a hundred quin- 

 tals of pure copper have been found, yet as thcfe mines 

 are now no longer worked, the whole country is under 

 a neceflity of receiving their copper from the Co- 

 quimbo and Guafco miaes ; fending thither in ex- 

 change cordovan leather and foap, made at Mendoza, 

 f om whence it is carried to Santiago, and thence fola 

 to different parts of the kingdom. 



Having thus confidered the trade of Chili in both 

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