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theories. These are the statements of a reliable person, who was unacquainted with my object in investigating his memory of matters which must have been fresh in his mind, for it was only four months before that he left Rioja.[1]
1. What is about the actual amount of the population of Rioja city?
- Ans. About fifteen hundred souls. It is said that only fifteen adult males reside in the city.
2. How many persons of note live in it?
- Ans. Six or eight in the city.
3. How many lawyers' offices are open there?
- Ans. None.
4. How many men wear dress-coats?
- Ans. None.
5. How many young men from La Rioja are studying at Cordova or Buenos Ayres?
- Ans. I know of only one.
6. How many schools are there, and how many children attend them?
- Ans. None.
7. Are there any public charitable institutions?
- Ans. None, nor any means for the simplest instruction. The only Franciscan ecclesiastic of the place has given instruction to some children.
8. How many of the churches are in ruins?
- Ans. Five; the Matriz is the only one at all serviceable.
9. Are new houses building?
- ↑ Dr. Don Manuel Ignacio Castro Barros, canon of the Cordova Cathedral.
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