The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 Landeli'- i - i^Agua Vl/est oF Greenwich 65° 30 Miles. when we had passed, settling down again, but revealing in their short flight the devastation they had wrought. Little but bare barkless stacks were left of tree and bush ; even the grass had been devoured down to the ground.' * Tucuman, metropolis of the north, although preserving in a slightly modified form the old Quichua name of Tucma applied to the province under the Inca rule, is nevertheless of Spanish foundation, dating from the yea
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita293recl Year: 1893 Landeli'- i - i^Agua Vl/est oF Greenwich 65° 30 Miles. when we had passed, settling down again, but revealing in their short flight the devastation they had wrought. Little but bare barkless stacks were left of tree and bush ; even the grass had been devoured down to the ground.' * Tucuman, metropolis of the north, although preserving in a slightly modified form the old Quichua name of Tucma applied to the province under the Inca rule, is nevertheless of Spanish foundation, dating from the year lo85. This historical city is admirably situated, at an altitude of 1,480 feet, in a fertile and highly-cultivated plain, which inclines gently down to the E,io Sali, and rises westwards in the direction of the superb peaks of the Sierra Aconquija. Here Belgrano defeated tho Spaniards, and here the National Congress proclaimed the * Op. cit., Vol. I., p. 289.
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