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NEW countries outside the British Dominions are more interesting to the inhabitants of Great Britain than the Argentine Republic. Enormous amounts of British capital are invested there—some 170.000.000l. in the railways alone, indeed Great Britain has financed most of the developments—about a quarter of our imported foodstuffs come from there, and a number of young Englishmen go out to find employment on the great estancias. At present the bulk of the population centres round Buenos Aires, the enormous hinterland being only thinly populated, and in many regions not thoroughly explored. And yet the country is not new; it has a history of three centuries, two of which, however, were under the old Spanish regime, when only Spanish emigration was permitted, and the few adventurers and officials who went out preferred the life of the town to that of the country.
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Modern Argentina 1 . Nature 85, 455 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/085455a0
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