The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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is also one of the dreariest, a place of wiuds, aud rains, ana storms, and utter
desolation.
Sfafen Island, a rocky ridge 3,000 feet high, lost amid the storm-tossed waters
of the Austral Sea, had been granted to a stock-breeder, who failed to profit bv the
concession. The only inhabitants are the men in charge of the lighthouse, which
has been erected on Cape San Juan. But the Argentine Government is credited
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Feet.
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Fig. 182.
16 to 32
Feet.
—
San Sebastian Bat.
Scale 1 : 500,000.
Depths.
i2 to 64
Feet.
12 Miles.
64 Feet
and upwaids.
with the intention of transforming Staten Island to a great penal settlement—
Plateau Sakhalin.
M.\TERI.\L AND SoCI.iL CONDITION OF ArGENTIN.\.
Since the War of Independence the population of Argentina has steadily
increased, despite the revolutions of the federalist and centralist factions, and
despite the brigand conflicts honoured by the name of " civil wars," which have
so long wasted certain provinces, and which have so often been re-kindled like
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