Argent a

a ‘town in Pulaski pesca Ark.; on the Arkansas river, and the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf and other railroads; nearly opposite Little Rock; chiefly engaged in_the live-stock and cotton industries. Pop, (1910) 11,138.; Argentina, formerly called the United Provinces of La Plata, a vast’ country of South America; extreme length, 2,100 miles; average breadth a litle over 500 miles; total area, 1,114,000 ore miles, It is bounded on the N. by Bolivia; on the FE. by Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay, and the Atlantic; on the S. by the Antarctic Ocean; and on the W. by the Andes, With the exception of the N. W., where lateral branches of the Andes run into the plain for 150 or 200 miles, and the province of Entre Rios, which is hilly, the characteristic feature of the country is the great monotonous and level plains called pampas. In the N., these plains are partly forest-covered, but all the central and 8, pone 1 eg vast treele tracts, which aford pasture to immense herds of horses, oxen, and sheep, and are varied in some places by brackish swamps, in others by salt steppes.