JB/012/095/001

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M.r James Bevans to J. B. Sharpe Esq. — Buenos Ayres

5.

9th Feb.y 1823.

Thou will perceive that I am not gone to Martin
Gacia as I intended. In fact, there is no getting on
as we do in England; but I set off tomorrow morning.
This last week I have been to Ensanada, a
small Town about 12 leagues lower down the River.
I took 2 of my Assistants with me. I went to examine
the Harbour, and found it a most beautiful one, compleatly
sheltered from every wind, and large enough
to accommodate double the number of ships which
usually lay near Buenos Ayres, and I am of opinion
that the Harbour is capable of great Improvement.
I therefore think it will be used as the General
Harbour, and that a Canal will be cut to Buenos
Ayres: there is a long tongue of Land which encloses
the Harbour from the River. It is called Mounte
Santiago: there are no less than four Rivers which
empty themselves into the Harbour. I never saw
so compleat a specimen of uncultivated nature,
as the mount presented. There are three or four
channels which run across the mount from the
Harbour to the River: I went through two of them: as
we approach, the Mount appears to be one large wood:
the larger trees have very much the growth of the oak
on a smaller scale, but when we got near enough,
they were Trees which bear a Bean not unlike the seed
of our English Scarlet Runners, eight or nine in a
pod. The pods are like our Windsor Beans, but the
flowers are extremely beautiful; quite as deep a
scarlet as our English Scarlet runners, but larger
than the acacia, and hanging in strings like the
acacia, and as full of flowers as the Laburnum.
Intermixed with these, are peach trees and Laurels,
with such a profusion of under vegetation, as to
render it difficult to make one's way through it.
The peaches are not quite ripe, but some of the party
accompanying us ate heartily: the channels
across are beautiful beyond description. There are
a quantity of wild swine in mount, and
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Identifier: | JB/012/095/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1823-02-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field	mr james bevans to j. b. sharpe esq. buenos ayres 9th feby 1823
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / d6
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	4156
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