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merchants of Guayaquil import it from New Spain, 

 and fend it to the Quito manufa6turers. 



Summer is the proper feafon for carr\ang on thefe 

 branches of commerce becaufe then the manufac- 

 tures of the mountains can be brought down to Gmya.- 

 quil, and the goods fent from other parts carried up 

 to the mountainous parts. But the river of Guaya- 

 quil is never without vefTels loading with goods of 

 that jurifdi6lion, the fea here being always open. 

 The profits refulting from this large and conftant 

 commerce, could alone have preferved it from a total 

 defertion, after being fo frequently pillaged by pirates, 

 and wafted by fire. And it is owing to the advan- 

 tages refulting from this commerce, that we now be- 

 hold it large, flourifhing, and magnificent, as if it 

 had enjoyed an uninterrupted profperity from its very 

 foundation. 



BO OX 



