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Principal Towns, in the Audiencia of Buenos Ayres ; 

 Buenos Ayres 60,000 5 Montevideo 7000 j San Miguel de 

 Cordova 6000 ;. Santa Fe 6000 ; Tucuman 5000 ; Salta 

 6000 ; Mendoza 8000 ; Asumpcion 12,000 ; La Candearia 

 5000. In the audiencia of Charcas : La Paz 40,000 j Po- 

 tosi 35,000 ; La Plata 16,000 j Oruro 15,000 ; Zinti 12,000 ; 

 Oropesa 25,000 ; Zarate 12,000. 



These estimates of the population are incomplete for the 

 lower regions of the Audiencia of Buenos Ayres 5 for in- 

 stance, for Salta, Sante Fe, Banda oriental and Entre Rios, 

 the calculation is perhaps too low ; it amounts from the years 

 1817 to 1820, for the Audiencia of Charcas, with Santa Cruz, 

 Moxos, and Chiquitos to 1,716,000, comprehending the 

 natives ; for the Audiencia of Buenos Ayres, without the In- 

 dians, 655,000, total 2,371 ,000. M. Schmidtmeyer, in his 

 interesting Voyage to Chili, reckons 1,100,000 inhabitants 

 for the basin of La Plata, and 1,300,000 for the provincias 

 de la Sierra. It appears to me probable that before the re- 

 volution, the white, copper-coloured, and mixed population 

 of the whole vice-royalty, previously to the dismembering of 

 the Cisplatine province by the Brazilian Portuguese, and of 

 Paraguay by Doctor Franzia, exceeded 2| millions, of whom 

 1,200,000 were Indians. 



