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habitants of Guayaquil. It is alfo the relidence of a 

 lieutenant and a parilh prieft, having under their in- 

 fpedlion the two towns of Santa Lucia and Valfar. 

 Here are a great number of plantations of tobacco 

 and fugar canes, cacao, and cotton ; together with 

 large orchards of fruit trees, and extenfive corn 

 fields. 



The river Daule, which, like that of Baba, dif- 

 charges itfelf into Guayaquil river, is very large, and 

 on both a great trade is carried on with that city. 

 By the former^ it receives the great plenty and va- 

 riety of fummer fruits, and a confiderable part of the 

 platanes, which conflitute the bread ufed there dur- 

 ing the whole year. Though great quantities of to- 

 bacco grow in other parts of the jurifdidion of GOaya» 

 quil, yet nqne equals that of Daule. 



The bufinefs of grazing is followed in all thefe 

 lieutenancies but more or lefs, in proportion to their 

 extent, the nature of the foil, and the conveniency of 

 driving the cattle to the mountains, beyond the reach 

 of the inundations. 



C H A P. IX. 



Defer ipUon of the River ^9/" Guayaquil 5 and of the 

 Veffels trading on it, 



THE river of Guayaquil being the channel of 

 the commerce of that place, it will be proper 

 to give fome account of it, in order to affift the rea- 

 der in forming an idea of the trade carried on in that 

 city. 



The diftance of the navigable part of this river, 

 from the city to the cuftom-houfe at Babayhoyo, the 

 place where the goods are landed, is, by thofe who 

 have long frequented it, commonly divided into 

 reaches, of which there are twenty, its courfe being, 



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