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"The Mesopotamia, which is bounded by these rivers, is really 

 a peninsula, whose neck in the N.E. corner is the territory of 

 ]\Iisiones, the ancient stronghold of the Jesuit power in the 

 Southern Americas. On this side the red sandstone hills fring- 

 ing on Corrientes have as yet resisted the encroachment of the 

 tropic forest, which connnences a few miles further north. Here 

 is the road by which the cattle from the uplands of Brazil find 

 their way to the south — a highway whose importance will be 

 increasingly felt as trade relations between the two countries are 

 drawn closer. 



2. Champiux Shorthorn Cow, Ascott Valentine, -i years old. — Owned 

 by Sr. Pedro T. Pages, La Josephina. Won the A. de Bary and Co. 

 Cup, and Family Group Prize (with two calves). 



"There is little doubt that at a former period the ocean ex- 

 tended far further into the interior, when the continental waters 

 discharged at what is now the junction of the Alto Parana, the 

 Paraguay, and the Bermejo. From this spot southwards the 

 land rises. Corrientes is gently undulating, and traversed by 

 numerous streams that wander confusedly through marshy 

 bottoms. Entre Rios, set upon the bar of that ancient water- 

 shed, rises in ridges of an argillaceous formation, running nearly 

 due north and south. Both provinces are covered with a rich 



