Journey from Buenos Ayres Author:Joseph Andrews Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CORDOVA. CHAPTER II. Modes of carnage at Cordova—Effect of abatement ofdu- tiei—Cordovese family—Reception at Cordova—Manners—Mining proceedings—Conduct of... more » South Americans in Trade—Rioja—The mines of Famatina—Aranco described—Department of Famatina—of Guandacol—of Llanos—Famatina mountains described—Mineral productions. While yet on .the hill which commands Cordova, on our route from Buenos Ayres, and while we were admiring the handsome appearance it made, we were impeded by a numerous train of carts, which it occupied us no little time to pass. These ponderous and rudely built vehicles have been so often described, it is useless to enlarge here upon their con struction. They were returning empty from Salta and Jujuy, at which places they ultimately discharge the goods which they convey from Buenos Ayres, and afford the means of travelling at an easy price to the inhabitants of the different towns and villages on their road, who are unable to bear the expense of post horses. I counted above a hundred and thirty persons thus accommodated, chiefly women calculated for household service. /The great number of persons of this class, journeying to Buenos Ayres, from the Northern provinces of the Union, bespeaks as much the poverty and want of employ for the population there, as it affords a proof of the increasing prosperity of the metropolitan city, under the wise and politic measures of the minister Rivadavia. To him is it indebted for the increase of foreign capital, and its application to the commercial j productions of the provinces of the Rio de la | Plata. He not only made Buenos Ayres the RIVADAVIA, THE MINISTER. 39 key to commerce, but with the ingenuity of a Bramah, contrived that none should understand how to use it without his consent. X Thus he has...« less