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Rio de Janeiro

next to impossible for any man to get a sight of them except those who are employd there at least no man would attempt it from mere curiosity for every body who is found on the road without being able to give a good account of himself is hangd immediately

From these mines a great quantity of gold certainly comes but it is purchasd at a vast expence of lives 40000 negroes are annualy imported on the Kings accompt for this purpose & notwithstanding that the year before last they dyed so fast that 20000 more were obligd to be draughted from the town of Rio

Pretious stones are also found here in very large quantities so large that they do not allow more than a certain quantity to be collected in a year which is done thus a troop of people are sent into the Countrey where they are found & orderd to return when they have collected a certain quantity which
 

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