CHAPTER VIII.

SURVEYS AND DISCOVERIES IN THE INTERIOR.

Malaspina. Surveys the Shores of the Rio de la Plata in

1789. Bauza maps the Road to Mendoza: De Souillac that

to Cordova. Azara, and other Officers, in 1796, fix the

positions of all the Forts and Towns in the Province of

Buenos Ayres. Don Luis de la Cruz crosses the Pampas, from

the frontiers of Conception in Chile to Buenos Ayres,

in 1806. Attempt at a mew delineation of the Rivers of

the Pampas from his Journal. His account of the Volcanic

appearances along the Eastern Andes. Sulphur, Coal, and

Salt found there, also Fossil Marine Remains. The Indians

of Araucanian origin: Habits and Customs of the Pehuenches Page 96

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