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WHAT MR. DARWIN SAW. 



LA PLATA. 



THE PLATE RIVER. 



HAVING been delayed for nearly a fortnight in Buenos 

 Ay res, I was glad to escape on board a packet bound for 



THE CITY OF MONTEVIDEO, LOOKING TOWARD THE 1IAKBOK. 



Montevideo. Our passage was a very long and tedious one. 

 The Plata looks like a noble estuary on the map, but is in 

 truth a poor affair. A wide expanse of muddy water has 

 neither grandeur nor beauty. At one time of the clay the 

 two shores, both of which are extremely low, could just be 

 distinguished from the deck. 



LA PLATA. 



IN the evening of September 27, 1833, I set out from 

 Buenos Ayres for Sante Fe, situated nearly three hundred 



