The States of the River PlateLongmans, Green, 1868 - 381 páginas |
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Página 352 - The navy comprises seven small steamers and ten sailing vessels. The following table contains a list of the fourteen provinces actually composing the Argentine Confederation, their estimated area, and the number of inhabitants, according to the last census, taken in 1869:— The increase of population of recent years has been due chiefly to immigration.
Página 349 - ... meet other obligations imposed upon it by the constitution. Each of .the fourteen provinces, or states, of the Confederation has a revenue of its own which is derived by the imposition of local taxes. Buenos Ayres, the most important state of the Confederation, requires annually above 1,000,OOOZ.
Página 326 - patron " ; who perhaps might knock a man off his horse and cut his throat for his spurs and stirrups, if these took his fancy, but who, in his patron's service, could with perfect confidence be trusted with hundreds of pounds, to go as many leagues and purchase and bring in cattle ; who moves with grace, speaks with courtesy, asks after all the family in detail, sends his compliments to the