APPENDIX. 



mechanics, and enterprising merchants, are, however, increasing 

 their estates, and adding to the stock of capital in the country. 



The people of the province of Buenos Ayres, residing out of the 

 city, are, generally speaking, poor, and rather indolent. Though 

 a hardy race, and when excited to action, they become zealous de- 

 fenders of the liberties of their country. They are capable of great 

 improvement, and under the influence of a good example, when a 

 change takes place in their manner and habit of living, they bid 

 fair to become useful and industrious citizens. 



The inhabitants of Cordova, are said to be more superstitious, 

 and more industrious, but less patriotic. This is principally at- 

 tributed to the loss of the trade with Peru, occasioned by the revo- 

 lutionary war. 



Tucuman, I was informed, possessed an excellent population. 



The people of Mendoza, or Cuyo, are moral, industrious and pa- 

 triotic. They have sacrificed largely at the shrine of indepen- 

 dence, supporting with zeal and confidence, the cause of their 

 country; whilst the citizens of Santa Fee are represented as im- 

 moral and insubordinate, and manifesting, on most occasions, an 

 extreme jealousy of their neighbors. 



The population of Entre Rios and Banda Oriental, is perhaps 

 not inferior in valor to that of Buenos Ayres. Nor is it deficient 

 in military skill, particularly in carrying on a partisan warfare, for 

 which its troops are admirably adapted. Their other good quali- 

 ties have been, probably, somewhat impaired by the system pur- 

 sued in that quarter, where they have been compelled to give up 

 every thing like civil avocations, and to continue without any re- 

 gular kind of government, under the absolute control of a chief, 

 who, whatever may be his political principles, or professions, in 

 practice concentrates all power, legislative, judicial and execu- 

 tive, in himself. 



The general congress of the United Provinces, assembled at 

 Buenos Ayres, on the third of December, 1817, established by a 

 provisional statute, a temporary form of government, which will 

 be found in Appendix marked (E.) 



This congress is comprised of deputies from the different pro- 

 vinces. It actually consists of twenty-six members. But as a re- 

 presentative is allowed for every fifteen thousand citizens, it 

 would be more numerous, if all the provinces had sent delegates 

 in that ratio of population. 



