THE SOUTH AMERICAN SERIES

URUGUAY

CATHEDRAL: MONTEVIDEO.

Frontispiece.

URUGUAY

BY

W. H. KOEBEL

AUTHOR OF
"ARGENTINA, PAST AND PRESENT," "PORTUGAL: ITS LAND AND PEOPLE,"
ETC.

WITH A MAP AND 55 ILLUSTRATIONS

T. FISHER UNWIN
LONDON               LEIPSIC
ADELPHI TERRACE     INSELSTRASSE 20
MCMXI

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The author has to tender his cordial thanks forthe extreme courtesy and for the invaluable assistancerendered during his stay in the country by theUruguayan officials, and by the British MinisterPlenipotentiary, Mr. J. R. Kennedy.

He is desirous of expressing the obligations underwhich he has been placed by Mr. C. E. R. Rowland,British Consul at Montevideo, for general assistanceand information on the seal fisheries; Señor José H.Figueira, for the description of the aboriginaltribes; Señor Ramos Montero, for the commercialtechnicalities of the pastoral industry; and Mr. V.Hinde, for the paper on the British railways inUruguay.

Thanks are due to a number of British residents,both in Montevideo and the Campo, greater thanit is possible to enumerate individually. Theauthor would more especially acknowledge thecourtesy of Messrs. Stapledon, W. J. Maclean, H.Hall-Hall, C. W. Baine, Temple, R. Booth, Piria,Adams, R. B. Harwar, L. L. Mercer, Warren, andJ. Storm.

Mr. R. A. Bennett, who accompanied the authorfor the purpose of photography, displayed an unremittingzeal that must be gratefully recognised.He is responsible for much of the information onMercedes, the Swiss colony, and the frontier townof Rivera.

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