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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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illa Concepcidn the river Paraguay continues to be navi-gable through the Brazilian territory of Matto Grosso, to the capitalof which province, Cuyaba, a steamer makes periodical voyages at theexpense of the Brazilian Government, following the Paraguay River toits confluence with the Rio Lourenzo, on an affluent of which, theRio Cuyaba, the town of the same name, is situated. The distancebetween Cuyaba and Buenos Ayres is some two thousand five hun-dred miles. Although the rivers Parana and Paraguay are navigated by a reg-ular service of steamers that offer fair and even satisfactory accommo-dation to passengers, their course still lies through immense solitudes,which seem to have been discovered too soon. The whole right bankof the river from Santa Fe to Brazil gives one the impression of some-thing incipient, of an expanse of the earth which Nature has not yetcompleted and made ready for the foot of man. The ArgentineChaco, even more than the Paraguayan Chaco, appears to be still in
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LOADING ORANGES AT SAN ANTONIO. UP THE RIVER PARANA. 363 formation; the land is hardly a few inches above low-water-level, andis still struggling against the river, now losing ground, and now gain-ing ; the vegetation, rank and luxurious, is thick jungle and heavygrass, which Nature is growing in the hope that in the course of hun-dreds of years the decayed matter will form a layer of soil on thesandy basis of plain and marsh. The attempt to found colonies inthis solitude seems sacrilege, as it were a prying into Natures labora-tory, where hitherto the Indian, the puma, the jaguar, the rose flamin-go, and myriads of insects have alone enjoyed the right of roving.However, the Argentines seem bent upon making the experiment, asis shown by the various colonies dotted along the river between Re-conquista and Formosa, which points are now being connected by 450kilometres of railway, in prolongation of the existing line from SantaFe to Reconquista. The return voyage down stream from Asuncio

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