A Five Years' Residence in Buenos Ayres, during the years 1820 to 1825 ... By an Englishman [i.e. G. T. Love] . With an appendix, containing rules and police of the port of Buenos Ayres, navigation of the river Plate, &c. &c

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A Five years' residence IN BUENOS AYRES, DURING THE YEARS 1820 to 1825: CONTAINING REMARKS ON THE COUNTRY AND INHABITANTS AND A VISIT TO COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO. BY AN ENGLISHMAN. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING RULES AND POLICE OF THE PORT OF BUENOS AYRES, NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER PLATE, &c. &c. LONDON : PUBLISHED BY G. HEBERT, 88, CHEAPSIDE. 1825. LONDON: Printed by R. Macdonald, Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell. Buenos Ayres, February 1826. The annexed sketches were written solely for the peru sal of the author's friends in England, and in submitting them to the public he feels considerable apprehension, aware that he must encounter the censures and criticisms of the man of business and others, who in a work profes sing to be a descriptive detail, expect to find minute accounts of soil, mineralogy, products, and all the et cetera of such works.

But independent of the author's inabili ty to write on subjects like these, he has not had the. op portunity, not having been six miles from the city of Bue nos Ayres during his residence in the country, with the ex ception of a short visit to Colonia and a residence of one day in Montevideo. Therefore, trifling as these hastily written sketches may appear, and in spite of their many inaccuracies, many of them arising from the author's not having been able to superintend the publication in person, he trusts they will be viewed with lenity and not visited by a criticism too severe.