Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de La Plata / Their Present State, Trade, and Debt

by Sir Woodbine Parish

Towns in Paraguay.

Place.	S. Latitude.			Longitude.			Where from.	Observations.
	°	´	"	°	´	"
Yaguaron	25	41	15					Azara, in 1785.
Itapé	25	51	14
Cazapa	26	9	53
Yuti	26	36	4
Point of embarkation on the Tebicuari	26	35	21
The Jesuit Missions of the Uruguay and Paranã, as fixed by the Boundary Commissioners, under the Treaty of 1777.
San Ignacio-guazu	26	55	12	321	5	9	Ferro	N.B. The difference adopted between the meridian of Ferro and Paris by the Commissioners, was 20° 30´.
Santa Maria de Fé	26	48	10	321	11	9	"
Santa Rosa	26	53	12	321	14	28	"
Santiago	27	8	40	321	20	14	"
San Cosmo	27	18	55	321	47	53	"
Itapua	27	20	16	322	14 2	"
Candelaria	27	27	14	322	19	30	"
Santa Ana	27	23	40	322	31	23	"
Loreto	27	19	44	322	35	19	"
San Ignacio-mini	27	14	55	322	43	11	"
Corpus	27	7	36	322	36	27	"
Trinidad	27	7	35	322	19	20	"
Jesus	27	2	36	322	17	2	"
San José	27	45	47	322	19	30	"
San Carlos	27	44	36	322	11	1	"
Apostoles	27	54	27	322	19	45	"
Conception	27	58	51	322	33	22	"
Santa Maria Mayor	27	53	34	322	38	59	"
San Xavier	27	51	8	322	49	26	"
Martires	27	50	24	322	36	49	"
San Nicolas	28	11	23	322	44	21	"
San Luis	28	25	41	323	1	23	"
San Lorenzo	28	27	51	323	14	29	"
San Miguel	28	33	13	323	22	24	"
San Juan	28	27	51	323	37	22	"
San Angel	28	18	13	323	47	15	"
San Tomas	28	32	49	322	1	39	"
San Borja	28	39	51	322	4	49	"
La Cruz	29	11	0	321	30	0	"
Yapeyú	29	28	0	321	17	2	"
The Gran Salto, or Great Fall on the Paranã	24	4	58				"	by the Boundary Commissioners, 1788.
N.B. Malaspina's Observations on the Shores of the River Plate, alluded to at page [97], are not inserted, owing to some apparent inaccuracies in the Copy received, which cannot be corrected without further reference to Buenos Ayres.

No. 8.—Return of Foreign Shipping arrived at Buenos Ayres, from 1821 to 1837, inclusive.

	1821.	1822.	1823.	1824.	1825.	1829.	1830.	1831.	1832.	1833.	1834.	1835.	1836.	1837.
British	128	133	113	110	99	78	73	44	48	74	61	54	49	61
N. American	42	75	80	143	102	97	83	77	55	91	67	51	37	40
Brazilian						15	38	42	44	47	43	42	39	42
Sardinian	3	7	6	6	5	15	23	20	26	30	43	23	21	20
French	19	21	24	21	29	28	16	10	22	17	10	14	19	24
Hamburgh					5	3	3	2	4	9	14	8	5	7
Dutch	2	4	6	8	6	5	8	2	2	2	2	3	2	1
Bremen					1		2	5	4	5	5	7	4	4
Danish	1	1	5	10	14	3	6	3	1	5	5	6	9	9
Swedish	7	11	6	14	11	3	1			1		3	6	4
Tuscan							1	1	2	2			1	1
Roman							1		1	2	1
Russian					1	1		1		1	1			1
Neapolitan								1		3	2
Austrian										2
Hanoverian					1				1	1
Portuguese							1			1	4	1		2
Chilian						1	1			1	1
Prussian					1							1
Belgian								2			2		2
Haytian						1
Spanish													6	12
Totals	202	252	240	312	275	250	257	210	210	294	261	213	200	228
N.B. The years 1825, 26, and 27 are omitted; Buenos Ayres havingbeen under blockade the greater part of that period. The vessels underthe flag of Monte Video are omitted also, being chiefly the carriers of atransit-trade.

No. 9
A Statement of the Quantities and Declared Value of British and Irish Produce and Manufactures Exported from the United Kingdom to the States of the Rio de la Plata,
In each year from 1830 to 1837.— (From Returns laid before Parliament.)

Articles.		1830.		1831.		1832.		1833.		1834.		1835.		1836.		1837.
		Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.	Quan­ti­ties.	Value.
			£		£		£		£		£		£		£		£
Apparel, Slops, and Hab­er­dash­er­y,	value		6,305		4,341		5,067		3,082		2,096		3,986		5,028		2,111
Arms and Am­mu­ni­tion	"		158		443		345		419		3,035		6,388		867		1,391
Bacon and Hams	cwts.	146	338			60	157	155	490	104	225	59	115	28	70	105	220
Beer and Ale	tuns	112	2,097	54	1,003	78	1,465	108	1,712	74	1,083	87	1,394	107	2,065	68	1,149
Books Printed	cwts.	12	319	6	128	2	51	1	10	5	126	7	166	12	275	9	180
Brass and Copper Man­u­fac­tures	"	265	1,219	50	279	105	485	96	555	139	807	37	265	1	5	72	675
Butter and Cheese	"	98	308	215	728	547	2,160	829	3,169	86	277	2	5			35	49
Coals, Culm, and Cinders	tons	941	585	109	94	707	430	868	438	966	508	1,544	751	975	514	713	400
Cordage	cwts.	80	200			55	53	144	234	100	150	430	646	30	100	153	288
Cotton Man­u­fac­tures, entered by the yard	yards	10,805,990	324,305	6,242,134	176,874	17,256,838	391,591	12,731,734	280,292	20,942,118	449,831	12,853,287	312,400	18,628,197	435,932	20,183,454	445,291
" " Hosiery, Lace and Small Wares	value		20,005		9,943		33,344		23,311		33,313		26,488		20,588		18,818
" Twist and Yarn	lbs.	5,831	587	800	30			300	26	9,258	446	34,560	2,824	4,600	350	5,734	364
Earth­en­ware of all sorts	pieces	671,945	9,617	292,529	4,274	354,684	5,309	770,172	9,377	523,161	5,762	598,001	6,212	966,687	9,748	1,093,905	7,724
Fish, Her­rings	barrels	60	72			35	29							2	2	2	2
Glass, entered by weight	cwts.	2,265	3,330	1,669	2,969	2,579	6,620	3,198	9,737	2,156	4,929	3,029	9,844	2,596	2,654	1,314	3,856
" " at value	value		254		58				100		60		196
Hard­wares and Cutlery	cwts.	5,793	24,356	4,237	20,000	5,397	22,718	5,571	20,281	10,454	33,040	8,347	30,117	7,211	27,629	6,929	20,531
Hats, Beaver and Felt	dozens	3,165	10,262	1,314	4,340	1,711	4,039	1,173	3,085	2,900	4,891	2,924	5,780	1,099	1,925	2,146	3,239
Iron and Steel, wrought and un­wrought	tons	545	7,836	391	5,058	792	6,128	734	11,023	1,143	12,433	1,033	9,414	963	13,614	994	12,859
Lead and Shot	"	40	662	20	351	14	219	38	555	15	283	13	295	24	775	34	703
Leather, wrought and un­wrought	lbs.	34,500	9,791	19,752	5,253	23,473	6,809	33,792	9,219	38,457	8,341	30,669	7,151	16,708	3,760	23,987	5,763
Sad­dler­y and Harness	value		1,254		279		309		1,330		943		1,284		888		341
Linen Man­u­fac­tures, entered by the yard	yards	973,640	31,893	406,583	16,663	344,013	30,680	509,528	21,690	1,487,576	43,919	948,026	34,789	794,772	27,844	1,477,392	42,591
" " Thread, Tapes, and Small Wares	value		1,078		1,514		1,619		327		1,073		842		460		656
Ma­chin­er­y and Mill Work	"		38		222				18		72		4,022		40		390
Print­ers' Colours	"		758		293		690		1,973		2,907		2,634		2,066		1,769
Plate, Plated Ware, Jew­el­lery and Watches	"		941		1,041		445		1,081		1,232		1,095		420		1,192
Salt	bushels	15,610	412	5,770	86	163	8	2,000	34	1,144	32	2,200	50	1,121	32	3,480	60
Silk Man­u­fac­tures	value		10,365		13,319		24,786		11,735		19,274		18,307		9,514		13,098
Soap and Candles	lbs.	51,730	1,147	2,710	35	125,520	2,661	277,102	5,416	13,100	290	18,369	380			224	12
Sta­tion­er­y of all sorts	value		1,325		1,089		1,912		1,441		2,064		3,202		1,708		1,545
Sugar, Refined	cwts.	149	409	84	186			131	287	504	1,368	32	91
Tin, un­wrought	"			37	125	35	117	8	30	78	185					15	61
Tin and Pewter Wares and Tin Plates	value		780		701		2,754		1,060		2,006		2,286		3,390		4,052
Woollen and Worsted Yarn	lbs.					1,672	80			6	1		816		90	672	130
Woollen Man­u­fac­tures, entered by the piece	pieces	30,328	141,700	14,901	58,137	28,392	39,445	23,387	79,231	36,673	172,393	35,970	140,915	26,514	105,223	22,555	93,355
" " " " yard	yards	84,830	8,184	49,119	5,077	39,219	9,099	65,269	5,640	112,124	10,781	113,750	9,251	114,023	10,121	60,857	5,578
" " Hosiery and Small Wares	value		4,574		1,705		4,462		3,052		4,801		3,593		4,607		2,301
All other Articles	"		4,663		3,382		4,066		3,902		6,587		11,347		5,030		3,365
Total		For 1830 £632,172		1831 £339,870		1832 £660,152		1833 £515,362		1834 £831,564		1835 £658,525		1836 £697,334		1837 £696,104

No. 10.
TRADE OF MONTE VIDEO.