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Rh should tend to simplify the plan of the custom-houses, and render them of easier access; the exposition of the prejudicial influence which the intermediate traffic of Buenos-Ayres has on the commerce of Peru; the project proposed in the year 1739, and latterly renewed, of rendering quicksilver a branch of free trade, &c. &c.; which compose the fourth and last part, are great conceptions, which realize, in the present production, the elevated views the author entertained when he engaged in this very useful labour. PART