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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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poised that itwill crack a nut. From Tandil theline goes to Trcs Arroyos, 120 miles,which will shortly be connected byan extension with Bahia Blanca.Another branch runs from Maiputo Mar del Plata, the Newport of Buenos Ayres, a fashionable water-ing-place which successful speculation has brought into existence andprosperity since 1887, and which already boasts casinos and hotelsof the most luxurious and completely civilized description. All thecountry traversed by the above railway lines is devoted to pastoraland agricultural industries, and the landscape, with the exception ofthe hilly district of the Sierra de Tandil and the Sierra de la Ven-tana, is always the same—bare pampa, with stretches of marshes andsmall lakes abounding in wild fowl. As for the estancias, towns, vil-lages, and colonies, when you have seen one you have seen all, and allare equally unpicturesque. The life, too, has become less fertile inpicturesque incidents since the enclosure of the land with wire fences,
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BAHIA BLANCA, NEW MOLE. ARGENTINE PROVINCIAL SKETCHES. 313 which makes the management of the herds much simpler, and enablesthe estancieros to dispense with the guard of mounted gauchos, whoare now to be seen only in the very distant interior. At present themajority of the population has no particular character, being com-posed of Italian and French emigrants; of Basques, with red or bluecloth caps; and a few native gauchos, with broad belts constellated withsilver coins, long ponchos, and wide Oriental trousers like petticoats,generally black, but sometimes striped with brilliant colors. Now-adays, however, the gaucho is losing his individuality, abandoning hispeculiar costume, and becoming assimilated in dress and habits withthe swarms of miscellaneous Europeans who have peopled the modernArgentine, and made the hundreds of colonies and towns that havesprung into existence within the past ten years. To visit these youngcentres of so-called civilization is no pleasant task. In a new

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