Genre:

Miscellaneous

Subjects:

Technology, Disease

    Describes the peculiar 'dexterity and science' of the garden irrigation system used in Buenos Aires. Also reports: 'The water of this river is clear as crystal [...] but its coldness, when drank [sic], brings on dysenteries and other dangerous diseases; the most fatal complaint, however, and one that never fails to attack Europeans,—I say never, for I never knew an instance of an entire escape from it, is what I call black fever; I believe it has no name in the Materia Medica of England or Europe, and being the only disease known there, it is called simply the fever'. (474)