History of the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres; containing the most accurate details relative to the topography, history, commerce, population, government, &c&cof that valuable colony . IB. PREFACE. ^HE conquest of the important colony,which forms the subject of the present vo-lume, was hailed as a most auspicious event,and excited in the public mind not only adesire to participate in the benefits that might beexpected from it in a commercial point of view,but also a wish to be minutely acquainted withevery particular relative to the extended regionsto which it gives access. Having been engagedin
History of the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres; containing the most accurate details relative to the topography, history, commerce, population, government, &c&cof that valuable colony . IB. PREFACE. ^HE conquest of the important colony,which forms the subject of the present vo-lume, was hailed as a most auspicious event,and excited in the public mind not only adesire to participate in the benefits that might beexpected from it in a commercial point of view,but also a wish to be minutely acquainted withevery particular relative to the extended regionsto which it gives access. Having been engagedin extensive mercantile pursuits, in the courseof which he had opportunities of acquiring muchinteresting information respecting the Spanishcolonies in South America, the author conceivedhe could not better employ some leisure-timewhich presented itself to him, than in digestingthose materials, and combining and arrangingthem with others already before the public, so asto form a complete and authentic account of thoseterritories, a thorough acquaintance with whichwas deemed so desirable an object to the states-man, to the merchant, and to the man of hopes that he will be
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