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PARAGUAY. 



hide and tallow trade of Buenos Ayres will be enlarged by the yield of 

 the pampas of Chiquitos. The trade of La Plata must be increased 

 when the productions of this beautiful land are sent out upon its waters, 

 and floated down to the sea. 



In the small town of Oliden, the Indian carries to market lettuce, 

 onions, capsicum, tomatoes, the cummin plant, wild marjorem, parsley, 

 mustard, radishes, and the sweet-scented seed of the anise, with a species 

 of moseatel grape. 



From what I can learn from persons who have navigated the upper 

 waters of the Paraguay, there is every reason to believe that the naviga- 

 tion is open from Cuyaba, the capital of the province of Matto Grosso, 

 in Brazil, down to the ocean, It is said there are no falls, and that if 

 there should be too little water on the upper streams in the dry season 

 of the year, the produce of these countries may be sent down with ease 

 in the wet seasons, when the rivers rise several feet, and are not very 

 rapid, 



