THE STATES 



OF 



THE RIVEE PLATE. 



PAET I. 



GENERAL. 



THE COUNTRIES of the Eiver Plate or Rio de la Plata are 

 those of the Banda Oriental or Eepublic of the llruguay, 

 a small state on the northern bank of the Estuary or Eio 

 de la Plata, whose chief city and port is Montevideo ; 

 and the Argentine Eepublic, on the southern bank, 

 extending south, west, and north, and comprising four- 

 teen provinces, viz. Buenos Ayres, Santa Fe, Cordoba, 

 Mendoza, San Juan, Santiago, Tucuman, Salta, Eioja, 

 Catamarca, San Luis, Jujuy, Entre-Eios, and Corrientes ; 

 its chief city and port being Buenos Ayres. 



The Banda Oriental lies on the southern limits of, and 

 is bounded by, the Brazilian Empire ; its eastern coast is 

 washed by the Southern Atlantic, its southern shores by 

 the lliver Plate, and its western by the magnificent river 

 Uruguay a semicircle of sea-board and navigable rivers. 



The Argentine Eepublic extends south to the Indian 

 territory and Patagonia, north to Bolivia and Paraguay ; 



