Strictures on a voyage to South America, as indited by the "secretary to the [late] mission" to La Plata
Subtitle: including observations on the capability of the Spanish Americans for civil liberty--on the principal events (civil and military,) of the revolution in Buenos Ayres, Chili, the Oriental Banda, etc. : and on the importance of friendly relations, political and commercial, with the independent states of South America : in a series of letters, addressed to a gentlemen of distinction at Washington
By: by a friend of truth and sound policy
Contributors: Bland, Theodorick, 1777-1846, attributed name; Skinner, John S. (John Stuart), 1788-1851, attributed name
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1820
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Politics and government; Foreign relations; History
Other titles: Strictures on Brackenridge's voyage to South America :
Notes: Mistakenly attributed by Cushing and Sabin to H.M. Brackenridge. Possibly written by Baptis Irvine, Theodorick Bland, or John Stuart Skinner; see Wayne D. Rasmussen, "Diplomats and plant collectors: The South American Commission, 1817-1818" in Agriculture and rural connections in the Pacific, 1500-1900, James Gerber and Lei Guang, eds. (2006), p. 60 (footnote 77); and Laura Bornholdt, Baltimore and early Pan-Americanism (1949), p. 105, 140.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.