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Description: So well wooded are certain areas that the forests of the 'Gran Chaco' are said to contain sixty thousand square miles of timber. The forest-woods include the quebracho, the nundubay (acacia) lapacho (bignonia, red and white cedar, amarillo (mimosa) the palm-tree introduced by the Jesuits, poplar, willow, walnut, and the celebrated yerba mate, whose leaves make a stimulating tea. The valuable quebracho (break-axe) takes a hundred years to arrive at maturity. It is largely used in the making of railway sleepers, etc., and also provides an export trade of about a quarter of a million tons annually, mainly for tanning purposes. This wood bears so strong a resemblance to red marble that it is a difficult matter to distinguish between the two. The 'Gran Chaco', the northern division of the country, is singularly interesting. It is the home of the native Indian tribes, and, in sharp contrast to the Mendozan area, its climate is tropical. Its fauna include the jaguar, the puma, wildcate, fox, tapir, many varieties of deer, and the alligator. The north is marshy, the south covered with dense forests. The capital of the Chaco is Resistencia.

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Its population of 1,674,000 makes it almost as large as Philadelphia, with a change of exceeding it in time. in other ways it compares with Chicago, for it is conspicuously modern, its present development having been begun and achieved within the last quarter of a century, although the city itself is nearly four hundred years old, and is the industrial complement of an agricultural and pastoral activity even great than that of our Middle West. Indeed, its banks and clearing houses are said to transact quite as much business as those of Chicago."

Description: We have mentioned the high per cent of college graduates in Buenos Aires. Argentina spends more money on educating her children than any country save Australia. Primary education is secular, and is free and compulsory for children from six to fourteen years old. As for secondary education (not compulsory) there are twenty-six national colleges maintained by the Government with some five thousand pupils, and nearly double that number of normal schools. There are Universities at Buenos Aires, Cordoba, La Plata, Santa Fe, and Parana.

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Mendoza is one of the most important inland cities. Here, by means of irrigation, the people have cultivated large vineyards, and a great deal of win is made."

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This station would grace any city."

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "When the amount of ice developed form snow becomes great enough, it begins to move out by a sort of spreading motion from the place where it was formed. When it begins to move, it becomes a glacier. Not all snow-fields give rise to glaciers, but all glaciers have their sources in snow-fields. For convenience of reference the glaciers now known may be arranged in three classes, alpine, piedmont, and continental. These three classes are not always distinct and clearly separable, but typical examples of each may be selected that are well characterized, and differ in essential features from typical examples of each of the other classes. In each group there are conspicuous variations which suggest minor or more specific subdivisions."

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Although ice under steady pressure slowly flows, when subjected to a decided strain it breaks, forming cracks, or crevasses in the glacier. Where the valley bottom is irregular, causing many steams in the moving ice, crevasses are especially abundant; and when the slope of the bottom is steep, the ice may become so crevassed that it is almost impossible to pass over it."

Description: Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "This great mountain has an immense sheet of white granular ice divided up by the general jutting up of the rock masses or shoulders of the mountain into the Nisqually, Cowlitz, and White River glaciers, falling in distinct ice cascades for about 3000 feet at very steep angles which sometimes approach the perpendicular."