. The Spanish-American republics . island of Martin Garcia literallyby the score. For want of a port or protection of any kind all busi- 420 THE SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS. ness is interrupted while the pampero is blowing, communication be-tween the shore and ships anchored in the roads being necessity of loading and unloading by means of lighters and tugsrenders the operation exceedingly expensive, and in many cases thecosts of landing goods at Montevideo are equivalent to the freight ofthe goods from Havre, Hamburg, or Liverpool. Ever since 1862there have been various schemes
. The Spanish-American republics . island of Martin Garcia literallyby the score. For want of a port or protection of any kind all busi- 420 THE SPANISH-AMERICAN REPUBLICS. ness is interrupted while the pampero is blowing, communication be-tween the shore and ships anchored in the roads being necessity of loading and unloading by means of lighters and tugsrenders the operation exceedingly expensive, and in many cases thecosts of landing goods at Montevideo are equivalent to the freight ofthe goods from Havre, Hamburg, or Liverpool. Ever since 1862there have been various schemes proposed for making a port,* but allhave fallen through. During my visit in 1890 no lessthan twenty-one costly projects were submitted to the Department ofPublic Works,but the well-in-formed consid-ered that noneof these projectswere likely to beaccepted. Toall of them twograve objectionswere to be made:first of all theenormous cost; and, second-ly, the fact that all the pro-jects were based on the gain-ing of land as a principal. THE STOCK EXCHANGE, MONTEVIDEO. * At the foQt of the CerrQ jg the Cibils dry-dock, made in 1874-78. It is built in granite rock, is450 feet long, 80 feet wide, and can admit a vessel drawing 24 feet of water. In the cen-tre is a gate, so that two docks can be formed, if necessary. Outside the dock a granitebreakwater, 380 feet long by 33 feet wide, built of ten-ton blocks, protects the dock from thesouth-east wind. The hydraulic machinery is excellent, and the dock is the finest in SouthAmerica. There are two smaller dry-docks at Montevideo, but they call for no special statistics of the port of Montevidio for 1888 show the entrance of 765 steamers and592 sailing ships from foreign ports, and 2090 sailers and 1450 steamers engaged in the coast-ing traffic. Taking the total of ships entered and cleared, it appears that the flags repre-sented by the steamers were in order of number: 1, English; 2, French; 3, German; 4Italian ; 5, Brazilian ;
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