Excerpt from Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio De La Plata: From Their Discovery and Conquest by the Spaniards to the Establishment of Their Political Independence; With Some Account of Their Present State, Trade, Debt, Etc.; An Appendix of Historical and Statistical Documents; And a Description of the Geology And Upon my return to Europe, I thought the best way of meeting such demands was to give to the public, in whose service it was obtained, a summary of the information which I had myself Degrees been able to collect upon these matters; but whilst engaged in preparing my Work, Don Pedro de Angelis at Buenos Ayres, under the auspices of that government, commenced the publication of a collection of historical notices and documents relating to the pro vinces of the Rio de la Plata, which seemed to supersede any necessity for extending my own task, as I then said, beyond a brief and general sketch of the Republic, and of the progress of discovery in that part of the world in the last sixty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.