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mingled with the troops of native pioneers on their 

 way to the prairies. In the same way, when European 

 capital flowed into the United States, it found in the 

 eastern cities a large treasury and a body of financiers 

 in whose hands it had to remain. 



In Argentina, on the contrary, everything speaks 

 of the close and direct dependence of the country 

 upon oversea markets. The soil itself bears the marks 

 of this solidarity. It is seen in the network of the 

 railways, the concentration of the urban population 

 in the ports, and the distribution of the cultivated 

 districts in concentric circles which are often limited, 

 not by a physical obstacle, but by the cost of freightage 

 between the productive centre and the port. Thus 

 we get a geographical expression of facts which seem 

 at first sight to belong to the purely economic or 

 sociological order. 



