I extract from this Statesmans Year Book some data in regard to the value of that country. Speaking of Paraguay. it is saidAn enumeration made by the government in 1S57 showed the population to number 1.337.439 souls. It must be twice or perhaps three times that number now. for the influx of population by immigration has been very great in all that section of country. The chief article of foreign commerce of Paraguay is the erlba ina. or Paraguayan tea. made of the leaves of the Ilex Paraguayensis tree. dried and reMo.dez to powder. which are extensively consumed in all the States of South America. The value of this export in 1881 was 910.925 pesos. in 1552. 964.800 pesos and in 1884. 729.351 pesos. the other chief export being tobacco. in 1881. 6.5b.650 pesos. in 1882. 410.380. and in 1881. 218.960 pesos.
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