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to 800 miles. This region includes the
southeasternmost states of Rio Grande do
SOL Santa Catharina, Parana, Sac Paulo,
Rio de Janeiro, Esperito Santo and Minas
Geraes. Northward along the coast is
BraziPs "black belt" where negro ex-
slaves and their descendants are more
numerous than elsewhere in the country.
Inland are the Indians, many of them un-
civilized.
BraziPs temperate region along the
South Atlantic coast is the region to which
manufacturing enterprise is largely con-
fined, just as it was to our own North
Atlantic coast half century ago. AS yet
manufacturing plays only an unimportant
part in the country's life, but textile fac
tories, tanneries and meat packing plants,
as well as various other industrial estab-
lishments are on the increase. This portion
of Brazil's map is peppered with cities and
towns and is covered with close network
of railroads. 1t is in this climatically de-
lightful region of Brazil that is developed
the country's chief industry-coffee grow
ing. Thousands of square miles are COW
cred by the orchards of trees which make
Brazil the foremost coffee producing coun-
try in the world.
Brazil is not backward in railroad con-
struction, having 10000 miles of track. Yet
so vast is the country that railway con-
struction seems barely begun. Brazil has
yet to build its transcontinental lines. With
single exception the railroads are con-
fined to a belt along the coast from $50 to
$50 miles deep. The exception is the road
extending from the port of Santos 800
miles westward to Porto Esperanca on the
Paraguay river.
Rio de Janeiro, capital of Brazil, in
which the exposition celebrating the CEN
tenary Of Brazilian independence is to be
held, has a population between a million
and million and half, and is therefore
one of the greatest of cities. 1t shares
roughly with Vienna, Osaka, Peking Han
kow and Calcutta the rank of tenth city
of the world. In South America it is sur
passed in size only by Buenos Aires. Set
in series of valleys, backed and all but
encircled by mountain-like hills clad in
riot of tropical vegetation, and with a
magnificent harbor at its feet, Rio de jan
Giro is one of the most beautiful-many
travellers assert the most beautiful-of the
cities of the world. Mans hand has
helped nature in bringing about this
beauty Broad boulevards rim the deep
crescents of the harbor and the rough,
picturesque adjoining coast; one of the
most famous of botanical gardens has
been created; and avenues are lined by
towering palms, while stately buildings are
set in spacious parks.
GAS muticolored and varied in beauty
as the butterflies of the tropics" is the
characterization Of one recent visitor to the
metropolis of Brazil. "In splendor of hue
and setting, this great city of the South is
unrlvaled the world over. Here granite
peak and turquoise sea, tropic forest and
rainbow tinted town, meet and harmonize.
"This city of lure terraces up from a
glorious bay-the Bay of Guanabara,
mountain-encircled, isle-bejeweled. From
the shore, where parks and boulevards are
fast crowding out the old Rio of narrow
streets, rise forested hills on whose slopes
the lovelier portion of the city les
To see Rio at its best and loveliest one
must go to these mountains that tower over
the city. Turning hayward, one looks
down, through frame of tangled vines
and branches, onto the tree-tops of the
sloping virgin forest. Far below, set in
verdure, CLEANS the kaleidoscope city, with
its crescent shores. In numerous cresCents