Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...extensive forests, fine pastures, and rich farming land. Cattle raising, gathering mate, and the cultivation of corn, cassava, tobacco, sugar cane, and fruits are the chief industries. Asuncion, the capital, is the chief city and trade center. Chile is nearly 5000 miles long, but scarcely more than 100 miles wide. It is one of the most progressive and prosperous countries of South America. The surface is mountainous; the country is bordered all along its eastern side by the lofty Andes. Aconcagua, the highest peak of South America, is just east of the boundary. The climate in the north is rainless, so that this region forms the Desert of Atacama. In the center there are winter rains. In the south it is rainy at all seasons. The chief industry in the north is the mining of silver, copper, and gold in the mountains, and nitrate of soda in the desert lowlands. In the central part the people raise wheat and other cereals and fruits, and herd sheep and cattle in large numbers. Coal is abundant, and is mined to some extent in the south central part; and lumbering is the chief industry in the heavy forests farther south. An extensive trade is carried on with Europe, and large quantities of nitrate, copper, silver, wheat, and iodine are exported. Manufactured 1 and coal are imported. and cattle 1 ' very healthful; on the east side there is abundant rain, supporting a dense forest growth. The majority of the people are Indians, many of them descendants of the Incas, the remains of whose aqueducts and great buildings are abundant. The ruling people are Spanish or mixed Indian and Spanish. Sugar and cotton are cultivated on the west coast by irrigation, while on the east side cacao, coffee, cinchona, and rubber are produced. The herding of alpacas,...
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