TOPOGRAPHY OF ARGENTINA. 



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is also one of the dreariest, a place of winds, and rains, and storms, and utter 

 desolation. 



Stateii Island, a rocky ridge 3,000 feet high, lost amid the storm-tossed waters 

 of the Austr.il Sea, had been granted to a stock-breeder, who failed to profit by the 

 concession. The only inhabitants are the men in charge of the lighthouse, which 

 has been erected on Cape San Juan. But the Argentine Government is credited 



Fig. 182. — San Sebastian Bay. 

 Scale 1 : 500,000. 



We -J oF brec. ..oh, 



Depths. 



to 16 



Feet. 



16 to 32 

 Feet. 



3-2 to 64 

 Feet. 



64 Feet 

 and upwards. 



12 Miles. 



with the intention of transforming Staten Island to a great penal settlement — a 

 Platean Sakhalin. 



Material and Social Condition of Argentina. 



Since the War of Independence the population of Argentina has steadily 

 increased, despite the revolutions of the federalist and centralist factions, and 

 despite the brigand conflicts honoured by the name of " civil wars," which have 

 so long wasted certain provinces, and which have so often been re-kindled like 



