3d. _Sauce Colony._ The first settlers who cultivated the soil in this agricultural centre were some Swiss people who, in the year 1879, hired the land where it now exists, In the years 1880 and 1881 other families came and settled themselves close to the first ones. In 1883, thirty families more came from the Valdense Colony; so that in 1884 the Sauce Colony counted 59 families. 4th. _Riachuelo Colony._ It is 10 kilometres distant, eastward, from Colonia del Sacramento. The first settlers have paid for all the land they had bought, being now the sole owners of it. The formation and improvements of this colony are owed to the mere intelligence and work of the settlers. The land is of a very good quality and especially fit for wheat. The other plants like maize, barley, beans, potatoes, etc., give also a very good result. The settlers are mostly foreigners; and most of them are Italians. The colony possesses a large public building, which is destined to be the school and the church; besides this, it has also a national school of the first degree. The steam-mill that exists works only for the colony. The above-mentioned colonies are situated in the Department of Colonia, and besides those, there are also the _Arrue_ and _Belgrano Colonies_. 5th. _Nuevo Berlin Colony._ In the Department of Rio Negro there exists, since a few years, the Nuevo Berlin Colony. It has over 1,033 hectares in full culture, and possesses steam ploughs and all kind of agricultural machinery. 6th. _Porvenir Colony._ The colonies in the Department of Paysandu are the _Villa Rosalia_ and _Esperanza_ colonies, of recent foundation, and the so-called _Porvenir_ colony. This last one is the most important one, counting already over 1,690 inhabitants. The languages spoken in the colony are Spanish and Italian. The soil cannot be better, and is fit for all kinds of culture. It possesses steam and water mills, a threshing Rausanes machine and a Hornsby. It has three schools--a public one and two private ones--and many societies, every one of them working for the improvement of the colony, and also other societies, the object of which is the purchase of all the necessary agricultural machinery. The public administration consists of a justice of peace, two attorneys, a police officer and a postoffice. 7th. _General Rivera Colony._ It is situated in the Department of Artigas, and has an extension of 4,987 hectares, over which they cultivate tobacco, maize, _mani_ and _mandioca_; it counts now over a hundred families.