To the Reader. 



S about a 8 or go Leagues diftant one from the 

 c other, lie S. E. and N. W. on the Globe, which 

 f caufes a Difference of at leaft a Degree. 



For the reft^ our Author acquaints us, that his 

 Plans (except three, %lm of Callao, Valparaifo r 

 and Copiapd) are drawn by the fame Scale, that fo 

 their Proportion may be feen at once ; and that 

 he hath been more particularin his Relation of the 

 Cuftoms and Manners of the Indians, and of their 

 Mines, and Methods of working them ; fo that his 

 Book and Father Feiiittees have very little in 

 common. 



To fpeak Truth, this laft-mention 9 d Part of 

 Monfieur Frezierh Hiftory is fo very New and Cu- 

 rious, that it might alone be thought a fuffkient 

 Motive to the Tranflation, and Publifhing of it 

 in Englijb, had it wanted the Recommendation of 

 the Judicious, whkh it doth not : For, after the 

 Privileges granted by the Spaniards to our South-Sea 

 Company, of trading in thofe diftant Countries, 

 and the Settlement of Englifb^&dtonzs by theirCon- 

 lent at Vera Cruz, Cartagena, Panama, Portobeloy a net 

 Buenos Ayres, (to bring home Gold and Silver, no 

 doubt) What could be of fo great Advantage to 

 the Englt/b, as an Account of the Manner of di& 

 covering, opening, and working their Mines ? 



Before we entirely bid Adieu to Monfieur Fre* 

 z\er\ own Abftradt of his Work, we cannot but 

 take Notice how unaccountable it feems, that a- 



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