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Title: Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875

Author: Various

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LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE

OF

_POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE._

MAY, 1875.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by J. B.
LIPPINCOTT & CO., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at
Washington.

UP THE PARANA AND IN PARAGUAY.

TWO PAPERS.--I.

[Illustration: DIAMOND CLIFF: SUNSET.]

The lot of the foreigner in Buenos Ayres during the rainy season is not
an enviable one. The Englishman who finds himself in that city when the
rain falls for weeks at a time becomes a victim to the spleen, the
American to "the blues," the Frenchman to ennui. The houses, built with
a view mainly to protection against the torrid heats of summer, are not
adapted to shelter their inmates from the dampness of winter, which
penetrates through doors that do not fasten and windows that do not fit
as snugly as they should. The continual and monotonous drip of the
rain, which ripples in streams or falls drop by drop on the pavement of
the yards or of the street, is also highly depressing to the spirits
when one is held an involuntary prisoner in the ground-floors of the
houses, and must perforce listen to it for hours.

If, led by inclination or compelled by necessity, you go into the
street, you find the space between the sidewalks transformed into a
miniature river. In some of the streets the pavements are more than
three feet high, and pedestrians walk on them as on the tow-path of a
canal, passing from one side of the torrent to the other on small wooden
crossings. The comfort that is derived elsewhere in inclement weather
from fires may not be hoped for in Buenos Ayres, for the bed-rooms are
rarely provi