The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress

The limits of the prairie--The rains--The wind and the formation of the clay of the Pampas--The wind and the contour--The zones of colonization on the Pampas--Hunting wild cattl...

The arid tableland and the region of glacial lakes--The first settlements on the Patagonian coast and the indigenous population--Extensive breeding--The use of pasture on the la...

A large-scale chart of the mean density of the population for each province--like those which were published in the latest Argentine Census-reports--has no geographical value fo...

The inhabited zones of the Andes in the north-west--_Valles_, _Quebradas_, _Puna_--The irrigation of the _valles_--The historic routes--Convoys of stock--The breeding of mules a...

The great industrial forms of cultivation, the sugar-cane and the vine, gave a new aspect to the scenery of Tucumán and Mendoza at the end of the nineteenth century. The increas...

The problem of the use of the river-routes of the Paraná and the Paraguay is not of interest to Argentina alone. It affects the whole history of colonization in South America. T...

The chapter devoted to primitive breeding and the transport of cattle contains a sketch of the network of routes over the Andes. One cannot expect to find in the scheme of route...

Manual labour on the _obrajes_--The land of the _bañados_ and the agricultural cantons of Corrientes--The timber-yards of the Chaco and the tannic-acid works of the Paraná--The...

The South-American continent is divided, from west to east, into three great zones. The lofty chains of the Andes stretch along the Pacific coast; at the foot of these are immen...

XII. YOKE OF CREOLE OXEN USED FOR THE TRANSPORT OF TIMBER ON THE EASTERN CHACO, OR CHACO OF SANTA FÉ 128 WORKS AT TARTAGAL (EASTERN CHACO) FOR MAKING TANNIC ACID 128

THE PLAIN OF THE PAMPAS 161 The limits of the prairie--The rains--The wind and the formation of the clay of the Pampas--The wind and the contour--The zones of colonization on th...

THE EXPLOITATION OF THE FORESTS 96 Manual labour on the _obrajes_--The land of the _bañados_ and the agricultural cantons of Corrientes--The timber-yards of the Chaco and the ta...

THE OASES OF THE NORTH-WEST 36 The inhabited zones of the Andes in the north-west--_Valles_, _Quebradas_, _Puna_--The irrigation of the _valles_--The historic routes--Convoys of...

PATAGONIA AND SHEEP-REARING 119 The arid tableland and the region of glacial lakes--The first settlements on the Patagonian coast and the indigenous population--Extensive breedi...