Buenos Aires and Pacific broad 2,967 Great Southern ” 2,745 Central ” 2,528 Western ” 1,360 Entre Rios standard 688 Northeastern ” 560 Buenos Aires Central ” 165 Central Cordoba narrow 772 Cordoba and Rosario ” 180 Province of Santa Fé ” 1,028 Northern ” 567 Central Northern ” 1,409 ------ 14,969 [2] The author desires to acknowledge his obligation for a number of historical facts to the South American Republics, by Hon. Thomas C. Dawson, and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, of New York and London. APPENDICES I AREA AND POPULATION The population of Argentina to-day probably exceeds six and a half millions. This does not average quite six to the square mile, a very small population indeed, considering the great extent of fertile and productive soil. Only a very small proportion of the inhabitants are other than Caucasians, a marked distinction over the other republics of South America. The states are very unequal in size, and the population is very unevenly distributed, as the following table, furnished by the National Demographic Bureau for 1908, will show: