. The Spanish-American republics . he prai-ries are dotted with innumerable herds of cattle and horses; occasion-ally you see two or three peasants wearing brown ponchos riding anddriving animals be-fore them; at long-intervals you seeone or two rauc/ws,or huts, where thesepeasants live. Inthe Argentine theranchos appearedmiserable enough,but in Uruguay Isaw many evenmore primitive,mere huts of blackmud, with a roof ofmaize straw, a floorof beaten earth, adoor-way, but notalways a window. The cabins of the Irish peasantry give some idea of the Uruguayanrancho; it is a comfortless, unhealthy, r
. The Spanish-American republics . he prai-ries are dotted with innumerable herds of cattle and horses; occasion-ally you see two or three peasants wearing brown ponchos riding anddriving animals be-fore them; at long-intervals you seeone or two rauc/ws,or huts, where thesepeasants live. Inthe Argentine theranchos appearedmiserable enough,but in Uruguay Isaw many evenmore primitive,mere huts of blackmud, with a roof ofmaize straw, a floorof beaten earth, adoor-way, but notalways a window. The cabins of the Irish peasantry give some idea of the Uruguayanrancho; it is a comfortless, unhealthy, rheumatic dwelling, less civilizedthan that of the Esquimaux, and more carelessly built than the mostordinary birds-nest. As for the towns, after Montevideo, the mostimportant is Paysandu, which differs in no respect from a dozen Ar-gentine towns similarly situated. Salto is absolutely without boasts a monument in commemoration of the declaration ofthe independence of the Republic, proclaimed in that town on August. WATER-CARRIER 416 THE SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS. 25, 1825. Santa Lucia, much frequented in summer by people fromMontevideo, is surrounded by pretty country, and has a picturesqueplaza, and a large church with elaborate stucco columns and Corin-thian capitals supporting a tympanum. As a rule, the Uruguayanprovincial town is a vast agglomeration of rectilinear unpaved streetsand stucco houses, having no particular character, but presenting aless neglected and untidy aspect than similar towns in the whole Banda Oriental and its inhabitants strike one as beinemore refined, more amiable, and more gentle than the land and peopleof the sister republic. Nevertheless, in the country everything is veryprimitive, and one is astounded at the rough way in which many ofthe rich estancieros live on their estates in the simplest and most com-fortless houses. These men own leagues and leagues of land, andthey live like the patriarchs of old, with two o
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