Identifier: throughsouthamer00zahmuoft Title: Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America Year: 1916 (1910s) Authors: Zahm, John Augustine, 1851-1921 Subjects: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 South America -- Description and travel Publisher: New York, Appleton Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: ed in a recent work entitledModern Patagonia, issued by the Argentina Ministry of Public Works, inwhich we read * As Nahuelhuapi compares with Lake Lucerne so may Bari-loche compare with the city of Lucerne as a tourist resort. P. 416. More than this. The government of Argentina has already made plansfor a city of a hundred thousand inhabitants, which is to be located on LakeNahuelhuapi, a few miles to the northeast of Bariloche. According to its pro-jectors, this city of the future is to be reached by the new transcontinentalrailroad, already begun, which is to connect San Antonio on the Atlantic withValdivia on the Pacific. It is, if present plans be realized, to be made a greatindustrial center and to take its place, a few decades hence, among the greatcities of the Republic. Nahuelhuapi City, as this new metropolis is alreadynamed, will certainly not be without attractions. It will be * situated at theentrance to the national park, in a region of delightful summer climate, and 368

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