The Republican journal., 1904-07-21
IP The RIO De LA PLATA
nyr HEART OF THE SOUTHERN
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,.uiP Rio APA," June y,
We're it not for decided differ
.., fine coloring of the water you
t'' ,sver know when the Atlantic
'.'- .,l the Rio de la Plata entered.
Inv, rolling, white-capped pillows
.,. same and no land is visible, for
|. i. 5.qs. nver which Juan Diaz de
covered is 1926 miles wide at its
.-t though with an average depth
.y fifty feet. Sebastian Cabot,
arrived in the year 1920, soon after
rrr.}es had murdered poor Don
1,nbad it River Of Silver; not
.....rn, of its color, which might
..,,,a for it the more appropriate
Golden river or River of Chloe
lt because he had wrested
...t.-, Of silver from the Indians
.,-.rmpd its banks, and he natu-
.rned that an abundance of
.rtai remained in the vicinity.
.. ei fact the terms Argentina
f. "a Plata, both meaning the
...N difference to silver, are mis-
. log no metals OF any sort,
or otherwise, are found
10 banks Of the mighty stream,
.re,u4re near it, and the scanty
rods deposits in the hills of
- ..a.tf have never been worked.
r- L.. ans aforesaid probably OBJ
-. t.e silver which so excited
., updity from Peru and
.-..lg some primitive system of
.o.4~.' commerce known only to
.-... ve, TO this day metals do not
,r, . the exports of the adjacent
.n-s. 'ruguay, Paraguay and Ar
-a Int instead such prosaic arti-
.s. Al. dies and tallow, horns, wool,
r,ssp.ypd and refrigerated meats,
T-.-- .Xtract, etc: for their wealth
,->>.tg ID grazing facilities and fer
rrso-D
,-.ttly speaking, the river Plate"
rs or English cousins persist in
s..as is an estuary rather than a
m smed by the junction of the
a.- uruguay and Uruguay, almost
Ght of the sea. 1t continues
TIES. 70 within few miles of the At
IT.. 4 Ia rly hrnu,, o,1rrpnt bainp
t-9vv charged with sand and organic
ra.rr IA solution, is SO slow in mingl-
..--a mat of the ocean that it can
-.#-Hcrlv traced a hundred miles out
Is embouchure. Like the ANA
.. Is navigation is free to the ships
natons, but unlike its mightier
- the La Plata is SO full of
and shoals and intricate channels
- make navigation both difficult
r-rous at any time Of year. At
y -.ueo, the Capital of Uruguay,
a-. Ire river suddenly narTows to
..5 miles. we boarded a side
steamer of the PlatenSe Flo
tt 1e which dispatches boat once
A 4Yutl to Asuneion, Paraguay's
. 40 miles above Montevideo;
IL Curumba l 1886 miles, where
. llect5 with a smaller vessel for
capital of the very rich and
ar-- BRAZILIAN province of Matto-
,,,iloc howe 7 q plat
ccle steamer draws only eight
t water but its accommodations
.4bly comfortable, if one is not
t .icMar concerning the cuisine.
lMe- raveling, in any part of South
1...a. IL is always best to bring
aa- hammock and plenty of
4Naltu netting. The staterooms are
> be hot and stuffy, and multi
't buzzing and singing pests
-Aa- lte burden. AS every school
SHOWS. the famous Rio de la Plata,
@ the widest river in the world
FL. sole exception of the Amazon,
.uElss more water into the ocean
@a1 ]ty other, draining region whose
@--tt-4 area is not less than a million
sa talt square miles. With its
Ht-uaurs, it affords more navigation
5i TIE Mississippi and all it's
td4 more than all the rivers Of
.ols tomblned-a tribe more than
.7l Taousand miles. The tides of the
4aaltle reach up nearly three hundred
niles and thousand miles in the in
+-e 4 is deep enough to carry vessels
tNratYfour feet draught. Above
-o7uoath of the Uruguay river, which
"lus the boundary line between the
'. If that name and Argentina,
TIE silica de la Plata is known as the
'l'--" Pah-rah-nah), accenting the
'@' y able, and is so called to it's
"0l1, Which is hidden somewhere in
'F heart Of Brazil near to that of the
''A"1Qn and the Orinoco. 1t is fed
~''4gh thousand channels, as well
oy topical rains and the melting
'-9"a u the Cordillera, and for 1900
u'-5s ii flows through part of Brazil
'N'h has never been explored-the
r'04, Of unconquerable savages At
PRESENT steamers run only to Cuyaba
'tle over $500 niles, but as far