FOOTNOTES:
[50] His positions will be found in the tables of fixed points given in the Appendix.
[51] The following wording of Francia's decree upon first hearing of Soria's having arrived at Nembucú, within the jurisdiction of Paraguay, is a fair sample of his mode of doing business:—"Soria is a bold, insolent, and shameless fellow for having come here without any previous permission, by a river which he has no business upon, and by which he may return as he came, if he can, for downwards neither he nor his vessel shall pass."
[52] Vessels of 300 tons burthen have been built above the city of Assumption, and floated down the river to Buenos Ayres.
PART II.
THE PROVINCES.
CHAPTER XII.
THE LITTORINE PROVINCES.
SANTA FÉ—ENTRE RIOS—CORRIENTES—THE OLD JESUIT MISSIONS—PARAGUAY UNDER DR. FRANCIA.
De Garay founds Santa Fé, and meets with Spaniards from Peru. His subsequent Deeds and Death. The Government of the Rio de la Plata separated from that of Paraguay, and Santa Fé annexed to Buenos Ayres. Its former prosperity, and great capabilities, especially for Steam Navigation. The Entre Rios—constituted a Province in 1814, its Extent, Government, and Population—chiefly a grazing Country. Corrientes—its valuable natural Productions—mistaken ideas of the people as to Foreign Trade. The Lake Ybera—Pigmies, Ants, Ant-Eaters, Locusts, and Beetles. The Missions now depopulated—their happy and flourishing state under the Jesuits. Paraguay—some Account of its former Prosperity and Trade, and the establishment of the tyrannical rule of Dr. Francia.