ON

THE UNITED PROVINCES

OF

South America,

ADDRESSED TO THE

HON. HENRY CLAY,

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE U. STATES.

BY

DON VICENTE PAZOS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH

BY

PLATT H. CROSBY, ESQ.

NEW-YORK :

PRINTED BY J. SEYMOUR, 49 JOHN-STREET.

LONDON:

BY J. MILLER, BOW-STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

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SA908.19

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

Southern District of New-York, ss.

BE it remembered, that on the twenty-fourth day of March, in the 430 year of the

Independence of the United States of America, PLATT H. CROSBY, of the said Dis. trict, hath deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor in the words following to wit:

"Letters on the United Provinces of South America, addressed to the Hon Henry Clay, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, by Don Vicente Pazos, translated from the Spanish, by Platt H. Crosby. Esq"

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned:" And also to an Act, entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JAMES DILL,

Clerk of the Southern District of New York.

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