. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 426 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. lands in other provinces held by a few great landowners. Some leagues north of Santa Fe may still be seen traces of the trench formerly cut to arrest the mounted Indian raiders. These earthworks have long been crossed by the settlers, who have transformed every railway station to an agricultural centre, thus step by step converting the wilderness to a cultivated plain. They are already approach • ing the plantations of Santiago del Estero. Below Santa Fe and Parana, a cliiï rising 260 feet above the left bank is crowned
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 426 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. lands in other provinces held by a few great landowners. Some leagues north of Santa Fe may still be seen traces of the trench formerly cut to arrest the mounted Indian raiders. These earthworks have long been crossed by the settlers, who have transformed every railway station to an agricultural centre, thus step by step converting the wilderness to a cultivated plain. They are already approach • ing the plantations of Santiago del Estero. Below Santa Fe and Parana, a cliiï rising 260 feet above the left bank is crowned by the town of Diamante, which occupies a superb position at the head of the delta. The Parana, contracted to a narrow channel at this point, is more Fig. 167.—Santa Fé and its First Colonies. Scale 1 : 1,250, eo^o 25 Miles. easily crossed than in the upper and lower reaches. Hence this strategic posi- tion has been hotly contested in all the civil wars, and here Ilrquiza's army of 20,000 horse swam the current. Like Parana, Diamante is surrounded by Russo- German settlements. Lower down a lateral creek, communicating with the main stream during the floods, is occupied by the town of Victoria, so named from a victory gained in 1728 over the Minuan Indians, who were driven beyond the Uruguay to the Charma district. In the neighbourhood the archreologist Ramon Lista has discovered some burial-places filled up with the remains of these Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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