



Produced by Rene Anderson Benitz, Adrian Mastronardi, and
the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net









                       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.


                _SECOND EDITION._


                    LONDON:
       PUBLISHED BY G. HEBERT, 88, CHEAPSIDE.

                     1827.


                    LONDON
  Stirling, Printer, 20 Ironmonger Lane, Cheapside.




PREFACE.


At a time when the rich and fertile provinces of South America are daily
becoming increased objects of commercial consideration--when their
riches and advantages are constantly forming the bases of fresh
speculations--and when, under the security offered to person and
property by the liberal institutions of a free and independent
government, communication with them is every hour becoming more
extended,--an illustration of their local affairs, customs, manners, and
people, cannot but be interesting.

Of these provinces, the one which forms the subject of the following
Remarks is far from being the least important. Without adverting to the
fertility of the soil, and the general healthiness of the climate, the
prospects which Buenos Ayres presents in a mercantile point of view,
