Facundo
Or, Civilization and Barbarism
Chapter One
Physical Aspect of the Argentine Republic, and the Ideas, Customs, and
Characters It Engenders
L'itendue des Pampas est si prodigieuse qu'au nord elles son bornies par
des bosquets de palmiers, et au midi par des neiges iternelles.
Head
The American continent ends to the south in a point, at whose extreme end
the Strait of Magellan is formed. To the west, and at a short distance
from the Pacific, the Chilean Andes run parallel to the coast. The land
that lies to the east of that chain of mountains and to the west of the
Atlantic, following the Rmo de la Plata toward the interior upstream along
the Uruguay, is the territory formerly called the United Provinces of the
Rmo de la Plata, and there, blood is still being shed in order to name it
either the Argentine Republic or the Argentine Confederation. To the north
are Paraguay, the Gran Chaco, and Bolivia, its alleged borders.
The immense expanse of land is entirely unpopulated at its extreme limits,
and it p ... read full excerpt from: Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism ebook
