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Rh las-Corrlentes, having performed a distance of three hundred and eighty-two leagues without encountering the smallest obstacle.

When a more perfect knowledge of this navigation shall have been practically acquired, a saving may be made of nearly, the one half of the time occupied by the present attempt, which must necessarily have been attended by a variety of short delays, although there was neither impediment nor risk, in any part of the passage. In the interim, this discovery affords great advantages to the commercial intercourse of Paraguay with the provinces of Tucuman and Peru, the productions having been hitherto transported on the back, of mules, with great delays, and at a heavy expence.

If our Mercury should have the good fortune to find access among the cultivated nations of Europe, and should survive the lapse of the present age, it will be proud to have transmitted to the world, and to posterity, the name and elevated conceptions of the illustrious protectress of this undertaking. To an august female America was first indebted for her exploration: to another, not of so elevated a rank, but equally