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Title: One way round South America ;
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Prentiss, Delight Sweetser, 1873-1903
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Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ofsome two hundred and fifty thousand people,three hundred and ten miles from Rio de Janeiro,southwest, built upon a broad plane with low hillsabout it. The houses are low and unpretentiqus,though there are some pretty country houses be-longing to wealthy coffee planters reached by thenow universal tramway. Four lines of steam rail-ways run out to the great coffee districts of theinterior, San Paulo being the center of the coffeetrade. You know Brazil grows two-thirds of thecoffee of the world and we coffee topers of theUnited States take one-half of this exportation.Coffee has been grown in Brazil only for the pastone hundred and fifty years, and requires a cer-tain altitude and certain conditions even here. Itmust have heat and dampness and be neither toonear nor too far from the sea-shore, and at anelevation of from one to four thousand feet. Withthese favorable conditions there will be two orthree gatherings a year from the plantations.Many think San Paulo will some day be the me-
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BOTANICAL GARDEN, RIO JANEIRO THE POWER PLANT AT PARNAHYBA 73 tropolis of Brazil, and it is now a clean, healthy,attractive city with wide streets and the air andbustle of a northern place. It is the capital of itsrichest state and received sixty million dollars ofgood American gold last year for its coffee. RioJaneiro is sleepy and dead compared with it. Mr. Cooper, the engineer of the great dam atParnahyba, twenty-five miles in air-line fromSan Paulo, is a clever, self-made, capable Ameri-can, with much of the salt of youth about him,a man of intelligence and power, and he alsoproved himself to be a delightful host, makingevery possible arrangement for our pleasure. Athalf after five Tuesday morning Mr. Coopersman met us at the door of the hotel in San Paulowith a carriage, took us to the station, handedout two return tickets, put us on the train andsaid, The second stop is Barnery, where thecompanys trolley will meet you. One hour andten minutes later the little narrow-gage trainca

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