United States of Brazil
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Excerpt from United States of Brazil: A Geographical Sketch, With Special Reference to Economic Conditions and Prospects of Future Development From many points of view the United States of Brazil may be compared with the United States of North America. From a geographical standpoint, for example, the two countries present a curious resemblance. Of enormous size, both occupy the central part of symmetrical continents, both are drained by mighty rivers, both are bordered on the east by narrow chains of mountains running parallel to the coast, and both are supported in the west by the great backbone of the New World. There is this difference, however, that the United States has an open route to the Pacific and controls its portion of the continent from one end to the other, while Brazil is bounded on the west by a series of Republics - Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. There is yet another difference: The great fluvial artery of the United States - the Mississippi - flows from north to south, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico and dividing the country into two distinct parts, while in the fluvial system of Brazil the principal rivers rise in the plateaus of the interior, where their head waters frequently interlace. Thence they diverge in the form of a fan and flow in courses more or less sinuous toward the east coast. This unique arrangement will not only facilitate, in the future, communication between extreme points of the country, which is now made by ocean route, but will hereafter be of extraordinary value to the commercial cities of the Atlantic coast by making them outlets for the products of the Andine countries. Brazil has a coast line nearly 6,500 kilometers in length, extending from the mouth of the Oyapok River and Cape Orange, in latitude 4° 20´ 45" north, to the mouth of the Chuy River, in latitude 33° 46´ 10" south. The boundary with French Guiana, which had been in dispute with France since the latter part of the seventeenth century, has been recently settled by the award of the Swiss Federal Council to which it was submitted. 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.
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