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Title: The Spanish-American republics
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore, 1846-1892
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ce of railway travelling in South America. TheCentral Station is a modest wooden building without pretensions ofany kind, and quite unworthy of the immense traffic which daily passesthrough it. There is no superfluous formality on the part of the em-ployes or of the public, and when the train draws up in the stationthere is a furious rush for places. The cars are on the Americanplan, with seats on each side, and a gangway down the middle, ena-bling one to pass from coach to coach the whole length of the train.No sooner have we started than a man passes through the car sellingbooks—French, English, and Spanish, more especially translations ofXavier de Montepins novels, with bright chromo-lithographic covers;then comes a boy selling newspapers—La Prensa,La Nation, Le Cou-rier de la Plata, Standard, Herald; next follows a vendor of pastillasy bon-bones, whose official title is that of confttero, and who, during theseven hours journey, made very frequent apparitions in the car, bring-
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ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. FROM BUENOS AYRES TO MENDOZA. 17 ing to this one a cocktail, to the other an egg-nog, and to another atall glassful of soda-water and fruit-syrup. All this struck me as beingcommendable, comforting, and comparatively civilized. As for thelandscape, I was soon obliged to confess that it was terribly monoto-nous. Near Buenos Ayres the line skirts the suburb of Belgrano,where there are many handsome villas, and then the country becomesfiat and often marshy grazing-land, beyond which, in the distance, youcatch a glimpse now and then of the river Parana. All this land isdivided into squares, and enclosed with fences made of crooked wood-en-posts and three or four lines of wire. Trees are very rare; occa-sionally near the river are patches of reeds, stunted willows, and lowshrubs of the acacia family; but generally the view is limited to inter-minable pastures, dotted with cattle and with flocks of white birds ofthe stork tribe, and black clouds of crows and wild-ducks,

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