The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-09-14
e4ronqhold Nearly Three Hundred
F'HH r.,sre the First Printing Press in
pI'' ,,rn hemisphere Turned Out Poly
.ratare as Early as 1913.

Is, with a beautiful river
,ugh, they pitched their
uHrd.' Thirty years later
Cabrera, Governor of
a, Arreblas, founded here
1rdova, with the hope of
cree between Peru and
,timately from ocean to
nearly three centuries
med the Jesuit strong
+ seat of learning in the
Early as 1913 it had a
csity, and in connection
st printing press in the
sphere was turning out
mes in Latin, Spanish,
tiuarani, long before the
I..rrs saw Plymouth Rock.
5yg of today is a rare relic
a.-lon and erudition, such
. aIpossible to find amid the
i.r ior progressiveness eX-
dck i'll these boundlesS
Iute from either border. Its
cAes, faded paintings and
a. alters, blackened domes
f.. towers, give it a favor of
U- somewhat out of place,
MESSED, III the midst of
s. business rush and gaudy
s. 1htful nevertheless. The
s. II this ambitious republic
.ttically to the present era
Ntality and speculative in
sgelopment; but Cordova,
ylctly in the center, a little
j a thousand miles from
ltiantic or the Pacific, has
y!sited by foreigners. While
les. with all its vicisSitudeS
= of fortune, remains the
as southern continent, and
5 become a tlourishing city
umercial Importance, and
ia Plate sprang into being
= lew years ago, Cordova
rd ISOLATED and unchanged
forgetting, by the world
Nowadays it suffers in a
st from having the repu-
eng old and musty;
81 be acknowledged that
i'll though picturesque and
J, its disadvantages. The
ii Valley of Cordova, being
stern edge of the pampar
N almost imperceptible
tr the Atlantic to the Andes,
H teet above the level of
.re, Biologists assert that
g the bed of a fresh water
Eiudled to the Rio Prinoro,
-lss the middle of it. That
zee rolled over all this part
.luent, nobody knows how
ago, is attested by the
ais and remains of oyster
llar strata, found high up
IS The environing sierras
10 the early inhabitants a
lection against the Indians
I'D them for many years,
tie first foothills of the
.j.aera. They are said to be
. opper, but are nowhere of
lie, the loftiest peak-that
lesta-being a trifle less
let high. The Primaro
rs wide, deep and danger
NMter time, when augment
Naerous small streams that
mo it from the hills; and
TO save their town from
destruction, the citizens
ago compelled to spoil the
r. river by diverting it from
channel and combining it
Ig walls. 1t would be hard
mate nearer to perfection
sLjoyed by the Cordovese-
/ it is sometimes a little too
.omfort, even when the sun
ghtest, for invigorating
owing over the glittering
-uesta and Cruz del Exc,
Z the sharp breath of snow
the farther Cordillera.
town with its straight, mar
$ and ill-clad peasants, its
4, and flat roofs and sixteenth
vor, reminds you strongly of
! Cordova in Spain; and the
heightened when you cross
Mayor and put up" at the
Paz Inn of Peace close to
sh Cabildo. The city was
the ancient plan prescribed
$ of the Indies, into squares
IS each. The better houses
one, generally one-storied,
Id paved inner courts, while
: ones are of bamboo, plas-
lde with mud and thatched
8. A late ordinance, how
directed the removal of all
to a given distance beyond
{ limits, thus RELOCATING the
If the population to the city's
Ecclesiastical property-all
Y some holy sign above the
lnds on every hand, for the
5 and revenues of the Jesuits
vince were very great during
ries that those remarkable
tically ruled the western
le old Spanish writer's allude
y to the religious fervor OF
gas. and they still merit the
as it is said that in spite OF
ION of the Jesuits and repeat.
.tions of church property the
cal wealth has not much di-
icing kept up mainly by the
nd donations of female de
Nj the convent grounds art
within walls 20 feet high, an(
e dozen churches has a paved
$50 yards. Perhaps the mos
is the cathedral-a grim
led pile, with oriental facade
'wers and massive domes
DIS at one corner of the tree
aZa. 1t is approached b!
ps, the stones of which, a.
nose of the court and pave(
ow the tread of many genera
identity it's builders meant i
enduring stronghold of thu
alth. Its outer walls arr
the ostensible policy of tn
1t one can see where MASSIVE
mes are set in courses to Civ,
rength and solidity. The tai
it'll their clusters of janglinl
Of adobe nodded into grace