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water in the Plata, when the wind has 

 ceased to force it out of its natural chan- 

 nel, leaves a dry space of land, on which 

 are found numbers of large fish, left high and 

 dry by the sudden retreat of the water. The 

 whole shore after a gale of wind is often 

 strewed with this finny tribe ; and if the beg- 

 gars who ask alms (always on horseback) 

 would condescend to dismount for their din- 

 ners, they would not only find every day pieces 

 of beef lying about the roads from the killing 

 grounds, which have fallen out of the butcher's 

 carts, but fish also on the shore, to be had for 

 nothing but the trouble of picking it up. 



