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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. LIFE AT BUENOS AYRES. CIVILITY OP CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICERS ? STREETS OP BUENOS AYBES?THE PLAZA DE LA VICTOEIA?THE FOBEIGNEIlS' CLU SI C. Hl'J.l MS AND MATE?THE BOLSA?DOWNWABD PEOGRESS OP THE PAPEB DOLLAEELIGIOUS LIBEHTY?THE EECOLETA ?' AS- SASSINATED BY HIS FEIENDS'?A BUENOS AYEEAN QUINTA?THE OMBU TBEE?PAMPEBOS AND DUST-STOEMS?CEICKETEES ABBOAD ?A DEAD HOBSE?PIEST VIEW OF PLAMINGOES. T HAD the pleasure of being met by my cousin, Mr. -- Parish, the English Consul, with whom I walked along the pier, preceded by my goods on the heads of a couple of active darkies. At the shore end is a neat building, like a summer-house, where passengers' luggage is examined by the custom-house officers, and I at once conceived a pleasing impression of the place from the great civility with which this operation was performed; certainly I have seldom been so well treated in Europe: and I may truly say that this favourable impression was daily confirmed more and more during a residence of several months. The 'general brightness and cleanliness of the city are very striking, especially to those who have last come from the tropical dirt ofBrazil. The lofty domes and white towers of the churches and Cabildo stand out in clear relief against the pure blue sky, and the marvellous freshness of the air has a most exhilarating effect on the system. The main part of the city stands upon the same level as the wide- expanding Pampas, about fifty feet above the river, and as every street towards the river ends in a steep incline, each shower washes the place thoroughly, and carries off all impurities into the capacious bosom of the La Plata. Two sets of streets at right angles to each other, and 150 yards apart, divide Buenos Ayres into a system of equal squares exactly like a chess-board...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217556040
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217556043
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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