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1818 April 22
Buenos Ayres and Chili — Particulars from M. Jonte &c

Buenos Ayres

Population of the Province
exclusive of the districts still
in the hands of the Spaniards
800,000

Population of the Capital 60,000
Salary of Commander in Chief
General St Martin 6,000
Salary of the Supreme
Director Dollars 12,000
— of each of the
Secretaries of State 6,000
viz.
1. War
2. Finance
3. Home Department and
Foreign affairs
Commander
Income of the
Largest property in the
interior about Dollrs 40,000

Production for export
1. Gold & Silver
2. Salted meats
3. Corn to Brasil and
Great Britain

In the interior, some
sugar for human consumption
sugar is refined in

No frost any where in
the plains flat part.
At Buenos Ayres many
English have introduced
fireplaces: and began
to be circulated by the
natives

Before the
Negroes about 3,000
, enlisted in
the Army (proprietors paid)
about 1,500
The others are gradually
enfranchising

Potosi is in their favor
was Secretary to
the General whom at the

viz Ao 1816 or
thereabouts.

Chili

Population of the Province 1,000,000

Population of the
Capital St Jago
about 60,000

Country the most delightful
imaginable: no
frost: nor extreme heat —
perpetual Spring.

Length of journey in days
from Buenos Ayres to StIago
in Chili? The mail takes
15 days: thence to Valparaiso
about 3 days.

Means of communication
— on foot , on horse-back
or in carriage?
On

Official Establishment
in Chili? — at St Jago the same as
at Buenos Ayres

Buenos Ayres

Price of Bread about 1/4
of the price in England
Meat still lower.

No of hands upon a Buenos
Ayres Estate — of course
least upon an Estate of
which the produce is
for nothing

Most in Estate consisting
of men

Of One Estate employed in
Agriculture and yielding
about 40,000 Dollars yearly
as above number of hands
from 40 to 60: some Creoles
sum Indians [some free
Negroes?]

Duration
To:
Mr B. Rivadavia
Rue de la—
Michodiere No. 4
Paris

Pencil marking fourth column

Books
1. Locke on Gov
2. Locke's Essay
3. Hartley on man
by Priestley

Identifier: | JB/060/014/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 60.
Date_1	1818-04-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	060	Main Headings
Folio number	014	Info in main headings field	[[info_in_main_headings_field::buenos ayres and chili - particulars from […?] jonte &c]]
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