. Ports of the world. Guide book. M O N E V I E> E O HISTORY In the year 1520 one of the ships ofMagellans fleet sailed into the mouth ofthe Rio de la Plata. The first objectto attract the attention of the lookoutwas a hill in an unknown hill is the site of the modern city,Montevideo. Juan Diaz de Solis landedupon the soil and took possession of thecountry in the name of the King ofSpain. For a great number of yearsthe ownership of the country Avas in dis-pute between the Spaniards and Portu-gese. Today this territory is the Re-public of Uruguay. It lies between theAtlantic Oce

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. Ports of the world. Guide book. M O N E V I E> E O HISTORY In the year 1520 one of the ships ofMagellans fleet sailed into the mouth ofthe Rio de la Plata. The first objectto attract the attention of the lookoutwas a hill in an unknown hill is the site of the modern city,Montevideo. Juan Diaz de Solis landedupon the soil and took possession of thecountry in the name of the King ofSpain. For a great number of yearsthe ownership of the country Avas in dis-pute between the Spaniards and Portu-gese. Today this territory is the Re-public of Uruguay. It lies between theAtlantic Ocean, the Rio de la Plata,Brazil and the Argentine is the smallest republic in South America, haying an area of lation is estimated at 1,400,000. After72,210 square miles. Its present popu- Montevidio had been successively oceu- Page Seven. MONTEVIDEO, THE CAPITAL OF URUGUAY,FROM THE HARBOR

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