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 of Scotland;” – Guasco, a port where the produce of the copper mines is shipped for exportation; – and the harbour of Copiapó, which one of her midshipmen trigonometrically surveyed, and carefully sounded, while Captain Hall, with two of his officers and three passengers, rode into the country, to witness the effects of the great earthquake of April, 1819, and also to visit the silver mines in the mountains near the town. Speaking of the change produced by the revolution in Peru, Captain Hall says:–

On the 13th Dec, Captain Hall went to the palace to breakfast with the Protector of Peru, and to see a curious mummy, or preserved figure, which had been brought the day before from a village to the northward of Lima, and is now in the British Museum, it having been sent to England in the Conway. On the 16th, he witnessed the ceremony of instituting the Peruvian Order of the Sun.

The Conway sailed from Lima, this time, with orders to visit the coast of South America, as far as the isthmus of Panama; thence to proceed along the shores of Mexico, which are washed by the Pacific, to call at the various ports by the way, and then to return to Peru and Chili. Circumstances, however, occurred to prevent the completion of this plan, and to render it necessary for Captain Hall to repass Cape Horn, without again visiting the western coast. His Journal informs us, that he successively touched at Payta, a place celebrated in