Category: History - Other

Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La Plata Their Present State, Trade, and Debt

Extent, Divisions, and General Government of the Provinces of La Plata. Jurisdiction of the old Viceroyalties:--Necessity of dividing and subdividing such vast Governments:--Embarrassments arising out of this necessity. The backwardness in the Political organization of these P...

Chapters

30. CHAPTER XIII.

CORDOVA. Government. Pastoral Habits of the People. Productions. LA RIOJA. Population, &c. Famatina Mines. Evils arising from the present subdivision of the Provincial Governmen...

25. CHAPTER IX.

Ignorance of the Buenos Ayreans respecting the lands south of the Salado previously in their Independence. Colonel Garcia's expedition to the Salt Lakes in 1810. The Government...

33. CHAPTER XVI.

Origin of the Funded Debt of Buenos Ayres. Receipts and Expenditure from 1822 to 1825, during peace. Loan raised in England. War with Brazil, and stoppage of all revenue from th...

29. CHAPTER XII.

De Garay founds _Santa Fé_, and meets with Spaniards from Peru. His subsequent Deeds and Death. The Government of the Rio de la Plata separated from that of Paraguay, and Santa...

32. CHAPTER XV.

Advantages of the situation of Buenos Ayres in a commercial point of view. Amount of _Imports_ into Buenos Ayres in peaceable times. From what Countries. Great proportion of the...

23. CHAPTER VII.

Little known of Patagonia till the appearance of Falkner's work in 1774. It stimulates the Spanish Government to send out an expedition under Piedra in 1778, to form settlements...

31. CHAPTER XIV.

The town of Cuyo formerly attached to Cordova. Value of the old municipal institutions. SAN LUIS, wretched state of the population. The miserable weakness of the Government, exp...

24. CHAPTER VIII.

Malaspina Surveys the Shores of the Rio de la Plata in 1789. Bauza maps the Road to Mendoza: De Souillac that to Cordova. Azara, and other Officers, in 1796, fix the positions o...

22. CHAPTER VI.

Climate of Buenos Ayres, liable to sudden changes. Influence of the North Wind. Case of Garcia. Effects of a Pampero. Dust-Storms and Showers of Mud. The Natives free from Epide...

28. CHAPTER XI.

Importance of the rivers of the United Provinces. The Paraguay and its tributaries. The Pilcomayo. The Vermejo. Soria's expedition down it from Oran, proving it navigable thence...

27. chapter viii.), in passing through the valleys in the lower ranges

of the Cordillera, immediately before reaching the pampas, was exceedingly struck with the abundance of marine remains thereabouts. He says, in his diary, "In all the hills and...

20. CHAPTER IV.

Statistics of the Population. Its great increase in the last fifty years. Castes into which it was formerly divided now disappearing. Numbers of Foreigners established there, es...

17. CHAPTER I.

Extent, Divisions, and General Government of the Provinces of La Plata. Jurisdiction of the old Viceroyalties:--Necessity of dividing and subdividing such vast Governments:--Emb...

21. CHAPTER V.

Great extent of the City. Public Buildings. Inconvenient Arrangement and want of Comfort in the Dwellings of the Natives a few years ago. Prejudice against Chimneys. Subsequent...

18. CHAPTER II.

The River Plate--why so called. Its immensity. Arrival off Buenos Ayres. Passengers carted on shore. Want of a better landing-place, for goods especially. Navigation of the Rive...

19. CHAPTER III.

First Impressions of Buenos Ayres. Date of the Foundation, and Insignificance of the Colony for a long period. Contraband Trade carried on through it a grievance to the Mother C...

26. CHAPTER X.

Geological Features of the Southern compared with those of the Northern Shore of the Plata. The Pampa Formation, probably derived from the Alluvial Process now going on, as exhi...

16. CHAPTER XVI.

Origin of the Funded Debt of Buenos Ayres. Receipts and Expenditure from 1822 to 1825, during peace. Loan raised in England. War with Brazil, and stoppage of all Revenue from th...

7. CHAPTER VII.

Little known of Patagonia till the appearance of Falkner's work in 1774. It stimulates the Spanish Government to send out an expedition under Piedra in 1778, to form settlements...

14. CHAPTER XIV.

The towns of Cuyo formerly attached to Cordova. Value of the old municipal institutions. SAN LUIS, wretched state of the population. The miserable weakness of the Government exp...

9. CHAPTER IX.

Ignorance of the Buenos Ayreans respecting the lands south of the Salado previously to their Independence. Colonel Garcia's expedition to the Salt Lakes in 1810. The Government...

13. CHAPTER XIII.

CORDOVA. Government. Pastoral Habits of the People. Productions. LA RIOJA. Population, &c. Famatina Mines. Evils arising from the present subdivision of the Provincial Governmen...

10. CHAPTER X.

Geological Features of the Southern compared with those of the Northern Shore of the Plata. The Pampa Formation, probably derived from the Alluvial Process now going on, as exhi...

12. CHAPTER XII.

De Garay founds _Santa Fé_, and meets with Spaniards from Peru. His subsequent Deeds and Death. The Government of the Rio de la Plata separated from that of Paraguay, and Santa...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

Malaspina. Surveys the Shores of the Rio de la Plata in 1789. Bauza maps the Road to Mendoza: De Souillac that to Cordova. Azara, and other Officers, in 1796, fix the positions...

15. CHAPTER XV.

Advantages of the situation of Buenos Ayres in a commercial point of view. Amount of _Imports_ into Buenos Ayres in peaceable times. From what Countries. Great proportion of the...

1. CHAPTER I.

Extent, Divisions, and General Government of the Provinces of La Plata. Jurisdiction of the old Viceroyalties:--Necessity of dividing and subdividing such vast Governments:--Emb...

6. CHAPTER VI.

Climate of Buenos Ayres, liable to sudden changes. Influence of the North Wind. Case of Garcia. Effects of a Pampero. Dust-Storms and Showers of Mud. The Natives free from Epide...

11. CHAPTER XI.

Importance of the rivers of the United Provinces. The Paraguay and its tributaries. The Pilcomayo. The Vermejo. Soria's expedition down it from Oran, proving it navigable thence...

3. CHAPTER III.

First Impressions of Buenos Ayres. Date of the Foundation, and insignificance of the Colony for a long period. Contraband Trade carried on through it a grievance to the Mother C...

5. CHAPTER V.

Great extent of the City. Public Buildings. Inconvenient Arrangement and want of Comfort in the Dwellings of the Natives a few years ago. Prejudice against Chimneys. Subsequent...

4. CHAPTER IV.

Statistics of the Population. Its great increase in the last fifty years. Castes into which it was formerly divided now disappearing. Numbers of Foreigners established there, es...

2. CHAPTER II.

The River Plate--why so called. Its immensity. Arrival off Buenos Ayres. Passengers carted on shore. Want of a better landing-place, for goods especially. Navigation of the Rive...