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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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which struck the crowns of these loftymountain monarchs long before it rose above the horizon of thevalleys at their feet. This was my first glimpse of the Andes, andone of the most impressive and beautiful visions that I have hadthe fortune to contemplate. — Mendoza is one of the very few towns of the Argentine Republicwhich produce at once a favorable impression upon the visitor, andleave in his mind souvenirs that remain satisfactory—at least, from thepicturesque point of view. The plan is the usual rectangular divis-ion into uniform chess-board blocks; the streets are twenty-five andthirty metres broad, with wide sidewalks shaded by lofty and luxuri-ant Carolina poplars. There are five large plazas, each planted withtrees and shrubs; indeed, the town might be described as a group ofshady avenues placed in the centre of an immense park or garden,for the environs, stretching away to the lower spurs of the Andes,are covered with brilliant green vegetation, kept fresh even in the
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FROM BUENOS AYRES TO MENDOZA. 23 height of the summer heat by the abundant waters of the river Men-doza and other natural and artificial streams. And this summer heatis not to be trifled with. Already at six oclock in the morning thesun begins to sting,and on certain days ahot wind blows fromthe province of SanJuan, which wouldrender the town un-endurable were it notfor the shade-trees andthe watercourses, oneof which runs alongthe principal street,the Calle General SanMartin, partly throughan open canal andpartly below the side-walk, which is formedof planks laid acrossthe stream, here con-fined in a brick aque-duct. In every streetfresh-water is running down the gut-ters night and day. An evidence ofthe heat met my eyes when I enteredthe court-yard of the Hotel Club So-cial : several of the guests were sleep-ing in the open air on iron bedsteadsplaced under the colonnade. This ho-tel consists of a handsome facade withtwo wings, in one of which is the res-taurant, and in the other a

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