Excerpt from Letters From Paraguay: Describing the Settlements of Montevideo Buenos Ayres; The Presidencies of Rioja Minor, Nombre De Dios, St. Mary and St. John, &C, &C, With the Manners, Customs, Religious Ceremonies, &C of the Inhabitants
The writer of the following letters, a gentleman of liberal education and considerable property, having been disappointed in his hopes of happiness with a beloved female, to relieve the distress of his mind, resolved to travel; and leaving this country for New York, on his arrival commenced a correspondence with his most intimate friend - Yorke, esq. of Taunton-Dean, in the county of Somerset, his half-brother. After remaining at New York a short time, he suddenly formed the resolution of embarking on a trading voyage to Botany Bay - with which these letters begin.
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