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[[vertical annotation in left margin written in red]] Uruguay - Montevideo [[/vertical annotation]]
[[red underline]] Amber de Birmania! [[/red underline]] Women here are often of [[red underline]] Margaret De Vecchi type, and few ^[[if any]] are slender. Most are stout some very stout [[/red underline]]
People use their knives [[red underline]] conspicuously at dinner women as well as men, and some daintily handle their fork to place some thing on their knife and use their knife to put it in their mouth! 
Tooth picks [[/red underline]] too are much in evidence and women as well as men work them around their teeth [[red underline]] at the table [[/red underline]] while they [[red underline]] are talking to each other [[/red underline]] Children are allowed to drink wine as well as beer but I saw [[red underline]] nobody showing signs [[/red underline]]
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of [[red underline]] intoxication [[/red underline]]
Before I went to the train took an automobile to drive me to Parque Urbano and the other Parque ? 
Both very well kept Saw a beautiful sculpted group on Boulevard Ortega recently unveiled and made by Miguel Blay, Madrid 1918, in honor of [[red underline]] Jose Pedro Varela, [[/red underline]] a splendid group in bronze and marble the inscription reading. "Illuminando la Conciencia oscuricida del peublo preparando al nino para ser hombre yal hombre para ser [[red underline]] cuidadano" [[/red underline]] At the RR. station ^[[entrance]] there were statues of Watt, Papira, Stephenson and Volta. [[red underline]] Train broad gauge [[/red underline]] was very full with a talkative