Chapter XIII: The Central Provinces

CORDOVA, LA RIOJA, SANTIAGO, TUCUMAN, CATAMARCA, SALTA.

CORDOVA. Government. Pastoral Habits of the People.
Productions. LA RIOJA. Population, &c. Famatina Mines.
Evils arising from the present subdivision of the
Provincial Governments. SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO. The Sandy
Desert or Traversia. Quichua Language. Productions, &c.
The Salado navigable to the Paranã. The Chaco. Mass of
native Iron found there. Theory of its Meteoric Origin
questionable. Account of the native Iron from Atacama.
TUCUMAN. Delightful Climate. Mines--little worked. Richness
of the Vegetation. Declaration of Independence of the
Provinces made there in 1816. CATAMARCA. Population, &c.
Original Inhabitants--their long Wars with the Spaniards.
SALTA. Divisions, Population, Government, Climate, Rivers.
The Vermejo, and its Affluents from Tarija and Jujuy.
Valuable Productions of this Province. Labour of the Mataco
Indians obtainable, and preferable to that of Europeans in
such Latitudes. Importance of inland Steam Navigation urged
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