The Pacific coast of South America had little trade with English merchants, but Lima was “the most beautiful, best built, best situated, and now the best fortify’d City in all Peru.” Noting the city’s proximity to the Andes, it seemed feasible to have connected “the richest Mines of Silver in the world” by river to the Atlantic harbors of Rio de la Plata. At least, the Atlas suggests, English colonizers would have done so: “But it cannot be while the Spaniards are Masters, who mind nothing but their Ease, and heaping up Gold and Silver, which they amass to such a Profusion as is not to be exprest.” New Spain traded in sugar, tobacco, cotton, indigo, and other agricultural products including chocolate. Much of that trade was carried on with Spanish ships in Europe, but English merchants did celebrate obtaining the “Assento from the King of Spain” to supply “this vast Country with Negro slaves.”