Author: Samuel Augustus Mitchell

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781230055954

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...city, on the Bay of All.. Saints. Pe-rnan'_ STREEY SCENE IN RIO JANEIRO. buco, Para (pah-rah'), and Maranham, all on or very near the coast, are considerable towns. 16. Diamantina (de-ah-mahn-te'nah) is the chief town in an important diamond district lying just beyond the Coast Range. It is on the river San Francisco. 17. Government.--Brazil, originally a Portuguese colony, became a kingdom in 1808, and an empire in 1822. In 1841, the Emperor, Don Pedro I., for reasons of state, abdicated in favor of his son, who ascended the throne, as Don Pedro 11., the same year. This prince is of the royal family of Portugal. 18. Brazil is a constitutional empire. The government is popular and well administered. Brazil is divided into twenty-one provinces, of which there are eleven each larger than Great Britain. A good school and university system is in operation. Some learned Brazilians have attained distinction in the arts and sciences. The press is free, and a taste for literature is increasing. The Emperor encourages European immigration. About 60,000 Germans and Swiss are now settled in about 60 distinct communities. 14. What is said of Rio Janeiro? What near this city? 15. What of Bahia, and other towns? 16. Of Diamantina? 17. Government? What occurred in 1841.7 18. What further of the government? How many provinces? Edu cation, 100c. Of the press? Of immigration, &c.? 19. Re1: lgion.--The Roman Catholic worship is established by law; other creeds are tolerated. Questions on Map No. 27, Peru.--Bound Peru. What cape farthest west? "There is Callao Bay? Pisco Bay? Cape Lobos? Chipam Bay? Vhere are the Lobos Islands? Chincha Islands? What mountain-ranges near the coast'? Where is the volcano ofG1111lateiri?...