DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES. 



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long, six inches broad, and half an in< h thick, are made into bundles, and find ready market* 

 tin-. .Helmut Chili-, as \\t-ll us al n.-arly rv.-ry |...rt on the west coat of South America. A 



i docH not shrink ox warp, it is used for partitions, weather-boarding, nhingling, cakit, uml 

 aliii..>t nni\( isally t.r the ceilings of rooms, mortar being objectionable for the laut purjx, 

 furl h.|ii.-ikr ci.untries. Here, also, iw fmind, in the greatest profusion, the Coligue a cane 

 iiihling tlie bamboo of Brazil. It grows in clusters, and ornaments the banks of some of 

 the streams in a very pretty 'manner, often attaining a height of more than 20 feet. Being 

 durable, light, flexible, and very strong, they are used as supports for the tiles in roofing 

 houses ; and it is of these that the Indians make their long, tapering, and terrible lances. The 

 other trees and plants are much the same as in the province of Concepcion. 



During the year 1850 its commerce with domestic ports consisted of the following articles, 

 of which the home valuation is also given : 



To foreign ports it sent, in the same period, to the value of $2,379, receiving to the value of 

 $6,892 ; of which sum $6,190 was in common salt, and $270 in iron cut-nails. The foreign 

 naturalized goods brought from Valparaiso amounted to $31,816, leaving a balance in its favor 

 of nearly $30,000. 



CHILOE This province, created by the law of division of the territory, is composed of 

 the island of the same name, the Chonos archipelago, and the continent from the southern 

 boundary of Valdivia to Cape Horn. Chile claims jurisdiction over all Patagonia and Tierra 

 del Fuego, with the intermediate Straits of Magellan ;* so that, according to the above official 



* The author has recently forwarded to me a copy of a pamphlet written at the request of the Minuter of the Interior of 

 Chile, in which is set forth the " Titulas de la Reptiblica de Chile 6. la. soberania y dominio de la estremtdad austral del comtimemte 

 Americano " (Titles of the republic of Chile to the sovereignty and dominion of the southern extremity of the American conti- 

 nent.) His arguments in answer to a preceding publication in Buenos Ayres are supported by documents, and appear to be 

 conclusive. Assuming as a principle that " las nuevas republicas tienen por limites las nminas que corresponden & Us antigua* 

 demarcaciones coloniales de que se formaron, salvo las raodificaciones que la guerra de la independencia hizo esperimentar & 

 algunas de las mencionadas demarcaciones" (the new republics have as limits those corresponding with the colonial demarca- 

 tions, from which they were formed, except as modified in some instances by the war of independence); he concludes as follows: 

 " La republica de Chile pucde presentar titulaa de la misma especie de las que ostenta la republica Argentina ; pero 6sta no 

 puede, como lo hace Chile, apoyar SUB pretensiones en leyes claras, precisas y terminantes, que realmente marcan las divuiones 

 territorialcs. Siempre que el monarca espanol se ha propuesto deslindar BUS provinoias ultra-marinas T & quien le ha asignado 

 la Patagonia, el estrecho de Magellanes y 1 ierra del Fuego T A Chile, en todas ocasiones desde la conquista hasfa la independ- 

 encia. * * Nuestra soberania sobre ese territorio es pues indisputable ; y pierda cuidado Senor Anjelis (the author of 

 the pamphlet insisting on the right of Buenos Ayres) Chile, si en esta cuestion debiera oirse la voz del canon con preferencia 

 a la voz de la justicia, sabria hacer respetar por la fuerza una propiedad cuya posesion le garantiza la lei." (The republic of 

 Chile may present claims (titles) of the same character as those of which the Argentine republic boasts; but the latter cannot, 

 as Chile does, support its pretensions on plain laws, precise and definite, which really mark territorial divisions. Whenever 

 the Spanish monarch proposed to delineate his ultra-marine provinces, to whom has he assigned Patagonia, the Straits of 

 Magellan, and Tierra del Fuego 7 To Chile, on all occasions, from the conquest to the independence ! Our sovereignty over 



