. The earth and its inhabitants .. . West or breenwich Depths. m 0 to 16 Feet. 16 Feet aid upwards. • Lighthouse. 18 Miles. inhabitants, nearly all of Sj^anish descent and speech, -soon rose against the rule of the Lusitanians, and after a war of three years, in which they were joined by the Buenos Aires people, they achieved their independence. Since then (1828) Uruguay has preserved its autonomy, thanks to the natural rivalries of its two powerful northern and southern neighbours. In the south-west the Brazilians became involved in other conflicts, here contending not for the natural frontie
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . West or breenwich Depths. m 0 to 16 Feet. 16 Feet aid upwards. • Lighthouse. 18 Miles. inhabitants, nearly all of Sj^anish descent and speech, -soon rose against the rule of the Lusitanians, and after a war of three years, in which they were joined by the Buenos Aires people, they achieved their independence. Since then (1828) Uruguay has preserved its autonomy, thanks to the natural rivalries of its two powerful northern and southern neighbours. In the south-west the Brazilians became involved in other conflicts, here contending not for the natural frontier formed by the Paraguay-Parana confluence but for the maintenance of their present frontiers, and to prevent the prepon- derance of Paraguay, which, under the dictatorship of Solano Lopez, threatened
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