The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 TOPOGRAPHY OF ARGENTINA. 461 is also one of the dreariest, a place of winds, and rains, and storms, and utter desolation. Stateii Island, a rocky ridge 3,000 feet high, lost amid the storm-tossed waters of the Sea, had been granted to a stock-breeder, who failed to profit by the concession. The only inhabitants are the men in charge of the lighthouse, which has been erected on Cape San Juan. But the Argentine Government is credited Fig. 182.—San Sebastian Bay. Scale 1 : 500,000. We-J
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 TOPOGRAPHY OF ARGENTINA. 461 is also one of the dreariest, a place of winds, and rains, and storms, and utter desolation. Stateii Island, a rocky ridge 3,000 feet high, lost amid the storm-tossed waters of the Sea, had been granted to a stock-breeder, who failed to profit by the concession. The only inhabitants are the men in charge of the lighthouse, which has been erected on Cape San Juan. But the Argentine Government is credited Fig. 182.—San Sebastian Bay. Scale 1 : 500,000. We-J oF brec. ..oh, Depths. 0 to 16 Feet. 16 to 32 Feet. 3-2 to 64 Feet. 64 Feet and upwards. 12 Miles. with the intention of transforming Staten Island to a great penal settlement—a Platean Sakhalin. Material and Social Condition of Argentina. Since the War of Independence the population of Argentina has steadily increased, despite the revolutions of the federalist and centralist factions, and despite the brigand conflicts honoured by the name of ' civil wars,' which have so long wasted certain provinces, and which have so often been re-kindled like
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