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1823. Oct.r 30.
2.
Mr. James Bevans to J B. Sharpe Esq-Buenos Ayres

19. Jany 1823.

secured by Iron Bars on the outside, even if in a
Court Yard. Although at first sight to an Englishman
they have a prison like appearance, yet I
was very quickly reconciled to them, and now I
would not be without them on any account: the
Children can play about the windows (which are
generally near the Floor) without any fear of their
falling out. The elevations of the Principal Houses
are in the Moorish stile of Architecture; and from
the boldness of the projections, and the open work Parapets,
they have rather a grand effect. The prints in
Ackerman's account of Buenos Ayres are generally, as
far as I have had an opportunity of seeing, faithful
representations. As I expected, none of the wells of
this Country go below the Landsprings: some of them
are rather brackish, some very fair. But I am
now trying to sink a Well through the bed of Clay
beneath the Land spring. I have a large Well which
belonged to a Monastery, (the Recolata), which is
suppressed, allothed for me to try the experiment with;
the water in it is only fine feet deep, and I have bored,
with some slight boring tools which I found here,
15 feet, and find a whitish kind of clay.

31.st Jan.y 1823.

31.st Jan.y. The Government has sent to England
for two sets of Boring Apparatus, which I hope will
prove very useful: thy description of the soil was
very far from correct; there is a very great diversity
in the soil: in some places there is sand
and no brick earth, in other places there is mould
over brick Earth, but the Tosca is a very different
article to the one thus showed to me in London-
some of it is compleat Rock, the Fracture like Lime
stone, and I have no doubt but when burnt, it
will prove extensively useful: I calculate upon
it's being the same as the Roman Cement. I am
about to burn a Kiln of about 200 Bushels, but the
difficulty will be to get it ground afterwards.

But

Identifier: | JB/012/093/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1823-01-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	093	Info in main headings field	(copy) mr james bevans to j. b. sharpe esq. buenos ayres 12th jany 1823
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	4154
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