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navigation for large vessels. There are reefs and rocks in the river between Paysandfi and Salto that make navigation dangerous except at high water. Above Salto the river is obstructed by reefs all the way up to the Brazilian frontier, about 95 m., and is navigable for See also:

LIGHT

light-draft vessels only at high water. Farther up, the river is freely navigable to Santo Tome (See also:

ARGENTINA

Argentina)—a distance of about 170 M. Travellers wishing to ascend the river above Salto usually See also:

CROSS

cross to See also:

Concordia, Entre Rios, and go up by railway to Ceibo, near See also:

MONTE

Monte Caseros, from which point small steamers ascend to See also:

URUGUAYANA

Uruguayana, Itaqui, and other river ports. The streets of Salto are well paved and lighted with See also:

ELECTRICITY

electricity, and there are some See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good public buildings. The town has two See also:

MEAT

meat-curing establishments (saladeros) and is the See also:

SHIPPING

shipping port for See also:

north-western Uruguay and, to some extent, for western Rio Grande do Sul (See also:

Brazil). Behind Salto lies a See also:

rich, undulating grazing See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, whose large herds See also:

SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply its See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief exports.

The department of Salto—See also:

AREA

area, 4866 sq. m., pop. (1900) 40,589, (1907, estimate) 53,154-is an undulating, well-watered region occupying the north-See also:

west See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle of Uruguay. Its See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries are almost exclusively See also:

PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral About one-third of its See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population are foreigners, chiefly Brazilians.

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