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1818 April 22
Buenos Ayres and Chili — Particulars from 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 cash of the Hand
of 6,000
viz
1. War
2. Finance
3. Home Department and
Foreign affairs
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 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
was Secretary to
the General at the
viz A 1816 or
thereabouts.
Chili
Population of the Province 1,000,000
Population of the
Capital StIago
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: to Valparaiso
about 3 days.
Means of communication
— on foot , on horse-back
or in carriage?
On
Official Establishment
in Chili? — at StIago 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 —
least upon an Extent of
which the
Most in Estate consisting
of men
Of Estate employed in
Agriculture and yielding
about 40,000 Dollars
as above number of hands
from 40 to 60: sum Creoles
sum Indians [sum for
Negroes?]
To:
Mr B. Rivadavia
Rue de la—
Michodiere No 4
Paris
Pencil marking fourth column
Books
1. Locke on Gov
2.
3. Hartley
by Priestley
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