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Sports and Amusements:—Horse-racing—Sailing—Cock-fighting—Hunting—Shooting—Fishing 78 Throwing the Lasso — Annual Fair near the Recolator 79 Provisions: Beef—Mutton—Poultry—Wines—Beer 81 to 85 Vegetables — Fruit 86 Other Animal and Vegetable Productions — Population 89 Trade and Manufactures — Exports 89 Imports—List of Vessels that arrived in 1821, 2, 3, 4 90 Shops in Buenos Ayres very numerous 92 English Manufactures very cheap 93 Currency, &c.—Notes engraved in England 95 Average of Exchange 96 Bank of Buenos Ayres—Funds — Education and Literature 97 College School—Academy in the Merced Church — Mrs. Hyne’s

Seminary

— Many Buenos Ayreans speak and write English 98 College of Stonyhurst, near Liverpool 99 Education of Females — Variedades et Mensagero de Londres 100 Newspapers published in Buenos Ayres 101 Printing Offices — Religion 102 Contrast of the Catholic and Protestant faith — Reception of an Archbishop, who arrived in 1824 — Times of Public Worship 103 Oration-Time 104 Music of the Masses — Confession 105 Figures of the Virgin Mary kept in glass cases 106 Priesthood not illiberal — Friars 107 Suppression of the Monasteries — Convents for Nuns 111 Religious Processions: St. Rosario, and St. Nicholas 113 Feast of Corpus Christi 113 Observances during Lent—Passion Week—Holy Thursday—Good Friday—Burning of Judas 113 to 114 Procession of the Holy Ghost 117 Funeral Ceremonies 119 Masses for the repose of the Soul — Protestant Burying-Ground 120