Excerpt from Records of the Scottish Settlers in the River Plate and Their Churches I believe the very title of this book will prove the best Introduction. N o Scotchman or scoto-argentine with any traditional love for his country would be worthy of the name who did not desire to know something of the history of his fathers or his countrymen in these lands. Their efforts have made the land a far more pleasant one for him. One may question how far Scotch influence has been felt, but there can be no doubt what influence has been exerted has been for good. To Scotchmen who have arrived in recent years the presence of a church and schools, with their attendant social environment, cannot but be an appreciable force for good. The question naturally arises How did these buildings and this community come to exist, and what has been their history? This is the question it is proposed to answer in these pages. For years I have been in the habit of collecting papers and -making notes of interesting events in the history of the Scotch community. That history has been largely a religious one, for it is unquestionably the Presbyterian faith that has united Scotsmen into a community in these Republics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.