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SOLIS THEATRE.
CLUB HOUSE.
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STREET SCENE.
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MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY.
COPYRIGHT 1891
BARBUCKLE BROS.
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YOUR COFFEE
MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY, S. A.
GRIND
The Republic of Uruguay, of which
Montevideo is the Capital, is locally
called the Banda Oriental, from its
position on the eastern side of the
large river Uruguay.
Montevido
AT HOME.
lies on the easterly side of a semi-
circular bay on the northern shore
It will pay you well to keep a miles from Buenos Ayres, with
of the estuary of the La Plata, 120
small coffee-mill in your kitchen which it connects by steamers. The
and grind your coffee just as
small peninsula on which the city is
built is only about 95 feet above the
you use it, one mess at a time.
sea level, but the headland of Cerro,
505 feet high, forming the western
Coffee should not be ground side of the bay, is notable enough on
until the coffee-pot is ready to
that low-lying coast to justify the
name of Montevideo. It is crowned
receive it. Coffee will lose more by a lighthouse and an old Spanish
fort. The city's area is about 620
of its strength and aroma in one acres; the suburbs extend for miles
hour after being ground than
into the country. The plan of both
the old and the new town is regu-
in six months before being lar; they are separated by the Calle
de la Cindadela on the line of the
ground. So long as
old ramparts. The low houses with
their flat terraced roofs and watch-
ARIOSA
towers, from which the merchants
look out for their ships, produce a
remains in the whole berry, our
somewhat Oriental impression. On
glazing, composed of choice the whole, the place has a rather
overdone aspect, for immense
eggs and pure confectioners' A wealth has been squandered in
sugar, closes the pores of the Italian marbles and other forms of
architectural decoration. The
coffee, and thereby are retained streets are generally well built, and
there is an extensive tramway sys.
all the original strength and tem.
The so-called “Cathedral” on the
aroma.
south side of Plaza de la Constitu-
ARIOSA COFFEE
cion--the principal square of the
old town-is a somewhat imposing
has during 25 years set the building with a dome and two side
towers 133 feet high, which form
standard for all other roasted
one of the best landmarks of the
coffees, So true is this that bay. On the north side of the square
is the cabildo-the law courts, senate
other manufacturers, in recom- house and the prison. In the line
of the old ramparts, an old Spanish
mending their goods, have citadel formerly stood, built by the
known no higher praise than seven years forced labor of 2,000
Quarani Indians. It was removed
to say, “It's just as good as in 1877 and the area united with the
Arbuckles'."
fine Plaza de la Indepencia. Mon-
tevideo owes its origin less to its
commercial position than to the
ARBUCKLE BROS. jealousy of the Spaniards toward
the Portuguese, which led Zabala,
Viceroy of Buenos Ayres, to erect a
NEW YORK CITY.
fort at this point in 1717.
Population 1887, 134,346-one-
JOSEPH P. KNAPP, LITH. N. Y.
third being foreigners.
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