plänks, and rafters, &c. Straw and reeds are sold in bundles; those of reeds generally contain 20. Wood is sold by the tree, or in billets. When it is sold by the tree, a certain number to be loaded constitutes a weight, and a certain number of them a cart-load. When it is sold in billets, it is delivered by cart-loads. The wood may come from the mountains, or from the inhabited country. When it comes from the mountains, the number of billets, of a quarter and a span in length, which can be contained in a measure three-quarters in height, and twelve quarters in length, is understood to be a cartload. The cart-load of the inhabited country ought to contain 400 billets; and the smallest in size ought to give at least three hastillas of those sold retail. A fanega of Buenos Ayres is equivalent to 0TM. 141737; that is to say, that a cubic metre contains nearly 7 fanegas; and a cubic vara in the same way 4 fanegas; therefore, a cubic vara is equal to Om. 647485. The fanega of Buenos Ayres contains The bushel, or eighth of a quarter, an English measure 2.938 A barrel of 32 frascos contains 0TM. 074092; that is, about three decimetres, or litres, more than the quantity which could be contained in half a fanega. 1 barrel of 32 frascos contains cubic feet of Buenos Ayres The Spanish cantara of 8 azumbres, 3.050 The beer gallon is larger than the wine gallon in the proportion of 750.916. The pipe or butt contains 126 gallons. 1 muids of Paris contains, ditto. that is, about 3 barrels of Buenos Ayres. Deaths in the city, taking the ave rage of the years 1822 and 1823, In the country, they are at the rate of 100 to 156 The deaths of all the province are to the births at the rate of 100 to 131 The births of males in the city are to the births of females about The deaths of ditto are to the deaths of ditto The births of males in the country are to the births of females about The deaths of ditto to deaths of ditto, The deaths under 15 years to the deaths above 15 years, in the city, about The deaths in the country ditto to ditto, about 100 to 95 100 to 72 100 to 95 100 to 95 100 to 98 The calculation of the population by the mortality founded on, shows us that the city, by the number of deaths, one year with another, contains souls And the country, taking the calcu 81,136 82,080 Being an entire population of . 163,216 Doubtful of the accuracy of the census of the population, the editor of the Statistical Register has preferred having recourse-as he says, in order to find it out as nearly as possible-to the indirect means, which the most celebrated writers on statistics have established: but, as Buenos Ayres is not a city of the first rank, the measure of MORTALITY which the aforesaid writers have laid down for such researches, which is more than and less than, will not answer the purpose: as little does that city stand under the same circumstances, as the commercial and maritime ones to which they have assigned a mortality equal to of their population; because there the population is very widely spread, the houses in general being only of one story, and well ventilated, and the climate temperate. For these reasons, the editor of the Statistical Register prefers for the measure of mortality of the population, which is what these writers fix for other cities, and that of for the country. 32 Produce of the Country for Exportation. Bullocks' Hides Cows' do. Bulls' do. Wild Horses' do. Vicunna do. Lambskins with wool Otter Skins Chinchilla Skins Sheep's Wool Vicunna Wool Large clean Horse Hair Mixed Horse Hair, & parts cut Other articles of less importance are not included, nor those which are produced and exported from the province of Buenos Ayres itself, which are also to be met with in all the other provinces. Remarks on the Fish and other productions of the Rio Negro, on the Patagonian coast. The fish which this river produces are salmontrout, prickle fish, (pegerreyes,) and lampreys. They are all good, particularly the first and the last. The trout are sometimes caught with the hook, but they bite rarely. These fish and the pegerreyes are taken in abundance (when nets are used) in the lakes which the river forms in its sudden inundations. The lampreys are found abun |