The natural resources of the great valleys of the Parana, paraguay, and Uruguay, merely require to be developed by the same means to make Monte Video and Buenos Ayres as flourishing as New Orleans, and to make the commerce of the River Plate rival that of the Mississippi.
"Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate"
Thomas Baines
These were common enough in the old days, when people in the other hemisphere talked of the United States as little as we do of paraguay.
"The Man Without a Country"
Edward E. Hale
Their drink was the mate, which may be termed the national beverage of paraguay, Brazil, and the Argentine Republic.
"On the Pampas"
G. A. Henty