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Excerpt from Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: Accompanied With Descriptions of the Scenery, and of the Costumes, Manners, &C. Of the Inhabitants of Those Cities and Their EnvironsLeaving, however, those more abstruse topics to the professed historian and political economist, the author of this work contented himself with sketching, originally without any View to publication, some of the characteristic features presented by the cities of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, and such peculiarities. In the habits, manners, and customs of the people as appeared to him most striking during a residence of three years in the country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.