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ARRIVE AT BUENOS AYRES. 



been ridden at their full speed eighteen miles 

 over a very bad and heavy road : however^ we 

 took them on to La Figura^ nine miles further, 

 which is not a regular post : here also they in- 

 formed us that we could not be supplid with any ; 

 but after much persuasion^ and paying what they 

 chose to demand^ they gave iis most excellent 

 ones^ when we pushed on through a most misera- 

 ble road^ full of water and pantanos, and arrived 

 in Buenos Ayres about eight o'clock, most mise- 

 rably wet, dirty, and fatigued, making eighty- 

 seven miles : thus performing the journey across 

 the Pampas in eight days, that is, striking out 

 one day only, for the time 1 remained at San Luis ; 

 but I was detained there seven hours and a half 

 beyond that time, therefore averaged upwards of 

 one hundred and fifteen miles and a half per day. 

 Travelling this journey with the government cou- 

 rier, gave me an opportunity of correcting my list 

 of post houses, which I can now say are very ac- 

 curately laid down, making a total sum of three 

 hundred and eight long leagues across the Pam- 



