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Records of the Scottish settlers in the River Plate and their churches (1897) (14784789625)
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Identifier: recordsofscottis00dodd (find matches) Title: Records of the Scottish settlers in the River Plate and their churches Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Dodds, James, of Buenos Aires Subjects: Scots Presbyterian Church Publisher: Buenos Aires : Grant and Sylvester Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: , with few stirringadventures to relate. Passengers who have been drifting fordays in mid-ocean in a disabled steamer, and at length reachland in safety, do not care to bring to mind the terrors of thedeep which they had encountered, and feel a disinclination tospeak on the subject. So it is in my case. I rarely recall thoseyears, and try to forget them, when hopes were disappointedand expectations frustrated. It was in 1866 that I entered onmy ministerial labours. For nine months previous to my goingto the Banda Oriental I was supplying the pulpit of St. Johnsduring the Rev. Mr. Gebbies absence in Scotland. It was rather awide field when I exchanged Buenos Aires for the Banda Oriental.I need not say that its physical features are a great contrast toBuenos Aires. The former country is undulating with spurs ofhills. It has in some parts broad stretches of woodland descendingto and following the courses of the rivers and brooks. Mysphere of labour extended along its western limit by the Text Appearing After Image: Rev. Lachlan MXeill. the River Plate, and their Churches 341 magnificent river Uruguay, from Salto to Colonia, a distance,I should think, of 300 miles. Along with B. O. I visited ourcountrymen in the neighbourhood of Concordia. There werefour preaching stations, which I supplied with considerableregularity for a numbe
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