. The earth and its inhabitants ... ^ issued. Sanson dAbbeville had little to add when reproducingit ten years later. Other missionaries had crossed the Andes to found stations amid the Patagonians■of the eastern slopes, as appears from the ruins of ancient missions on the shores Fig. 152.—Staten 1 : 1,100, 18 miles. •of Lake Nahuel Huapi, discovered by Basil Villarino during his explorations inthe Rio Negro basin in 1782. On their expulsion from Chili, the Jesuits broughtaway some valuable geographical materials. Ignacio Molina, amongst others,published at Bologna several wo
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ^ issued. Sanson dAbbeville had little to add when reproducingit ten years later. Other missionaries had crossed the Andes to found stations amid the Patagonians■of the eastern slopes, as appears from the ruins of ancient missions on the shores Fig. 152.—Staten 1 : 1,100, 18 miles. •of Lake Nahuel Huapi, discovered by Basil Villarino during his explorations inthe Rio Negro basin in 1782. On their expulsion from Chili, the Jesuits broughtaway some valuable geographical materials. Ignacio Molina, amongst others,published at Bologna several works on Chili, in which is summed up all that wasknown of that region at the end of the eighteenth century, that is to say, beforethe period of political and social transformation which was soon to , a French priest of the Order of Minims, had approximately determinedthe longitude of the Chilian seaboard early in the same century. His observationsremained uncontrolled till corrected by the mariners of various nations during thecourse of the present century. 406 SOUTH AMEEICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. Later Explorations of Tierra del Fuego. After tlie establishment of the Chilian Republic, Great Britain, desirous ofincreasing her commercial relations with the regions which had till lately beeninterdicted to
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