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1823. Octr. 29 Mr. James Bevans to J.B. Sharpe Esq— Buenos Aryes 31st Jan. 1823.

But persons who try experiments must make
shift: if we can not grind it we must pound
it. I understand the blue clay which shaw gave
to me, is to be procured about the mouth of the ri—ver
Chouela. I spent a day at a cottage built by a
gentleman, about 5 miles from the city where he
has a salting house for salting beef: he kills a—bout
70 or 80 heads of cattle a day, and all the beef,
free from bone, is in salt by night: he does conde
send to salt the tongues, but the hearts and all
the rest of the offal is thrown into the river as food
for fishes: the heads and bones serve for feud for
brick and lime burning then came home in the
evening in a boat down the river Chuela, and
from the winding of the river the distance was
increased between 8 and 9 miles: the the ride
was a most delightful one. The banks of the river
were frequently covered with trees and shrubs.
There was an appearance on the sand banks,
which appeared very curious: the sand appeared
to from itself into tall cones of iron land stone
round the blades of grass or twigs: some of them
are about a foot in height, and 2 inches in dia—meter—
I brought some home with me, but although
exposed to the sun and air, they do not appear to
get much harder. I supposed it to be occasioned
by there being iron in the water: but we happened
to go on shore on some of the highest ground, where
the soil was sandy, and some ditches had been
lately cut, and there I found the same kind of
formation, only they were not more than 1/4 of an
inch in diameter, and much harder. I am very
busy contriving a harbour built in the inner roads in the
deep water off the bull ring, with a bridge of 3 1/2
furlongs to it, to form a reservoir for the land wa—ter,
which comes down a little stream shown
in the map of the city, not far from the bull ring,

Identifier: | JB/012/094/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1823-01-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	094	Info in main headings field	mr james bevans to j. b. sharpe esq. buenos ayres 31st jany 1823
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / d4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	4155
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