Brazil is divided

politically, into 21 States (formerly provinces) of which there are at least nine each exceeding Great Britain in superficial extent. It is, however, difficult to obtain the area of the States, and-ef the whole coun: try, the existing data being very unsatisfactory and conflicting. The fol. lowing table gives the areas of the States and the population in 1900, as revised by the Brazilian Minister tc the United States: Area_ in States. sq. Miles.| Pop. 1900. ANQRCRG oceans wore 22,583 600,440 Amazon as.........] 732,460 300,915 Bahia...........--] 164,649] 2,901,365 Ceara.eccecscesees 40,253 805,687 Espirito Santo...... 17,312 250,997 GOYat sccceveeseses| 288,546 227,572 Maranhao.........}| 177,566 530,854 Matto Gro o.......| 532,708 250,827 Minas Geres.......| 222,160} 4,000,095 Baar.cescecescesee | 4485558 850,455 Pavalivba. 06....i 28,854 457,232 Parana.....sccce 85,453 349,491 Pernambuco....... 49,625 280,224 Bientiay aGKaes + set | | WUBI 267,609 Rio de Janeiro (city 538 752,651 Rio de Janeiro..... 26,684] 1,250,884 Rio Grande do Norte 22,195 268,273 Rio Grande do Sul.. 91,835] 1,197,455 Sao Paulo..........| 112,330] 2,000,753 Santa Catharina..... 27,436 383,765 Sergipe............ 18,386,815 In addition to Pe ae giver above, it is estimated that there are i 600,000 uncivilized Indians he most important towns in Brazi are the capital, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia Pernambuco, Para or Belem, Sat Paulo, Parahyba, Ceara, and Porto Algre. In remarkable contrast to the countries on the W. side of the South American continent, Brazil has no mountains of very great elevation. The higher mountains of Brazil, most of them occurring at greater and le er distances from the E. coast, extend generally in a direction more or le from 8. to N., though numerous inferior ranges traverse the country in various other directions. The river system of Brazil is unequaled, perhaps, in any other part of the world for the number and magnitude of the streams of which it is composed, the surface of the whole N. W. portion being interlaced with rivers of every length and yolume; presenting the complex appearance of ve els in the human body, to which the Amazon and its larger tributaries may be said to stand in the relation of main arteries. By far the greater portion of these numberle streams have more or le of a N. direction, and finally find their way, either directly or through their principals, to the Amazon. The largest river of Brazil, and the largest, it is believed, in the world, though not the longest, is the Amazon, which enters the country from the W., course from the point named of about 800 miles,-flows into the Atlantic near the equator. In order of magnitude follow the Rio Negro and Medeira, both tributaries of the Amazon; the former flowing from the N. W., the latter from the S. W. The other large rivers in this portion of the country are the Branco, a tributary of the Rio Negro; the Tapajos and Xingu, other two large tributaries of the Amazon; the Araguay, To can tins, Maranhao, and Paranahyba. The next in size is the Rio Francisco, which, after flowing N. for about 800 miles, suddenly turns due E., and subsequently S. E., falling into the sea about lat. 11° S. Pa ing along the coast, S. from the embouchure of the Francisco, the following considerable rivers occur—the Vazabarris, Itapicuru, Paragua u, Belmonte or Jequitinhonha, in the State of Bahia: Doce, State of Espirito-Santo; and the Paraiba-do-Sul, the S. boundary of the same State. In this enumeration of the rivers having their embouchures on the EB. coast of Brazil, we have omitted an immense number of smaller streams, perhaps not many below a hundred. In the interior of the S. portion of the country occur the large rivers Uruguay, Yguazu, Para napa nema, Tieta, Para, Paraguay, and Parana, with numerous smaller streams —smaller in comparison to these, but. still large rivers —winding in all directions through every province, Although unrivalled in the number and magnitude of its rivers, Brazil has comparatively few lakes of any great extent. The largest is the Lagoa dos Patos, a lagoon in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, the extreme S. of the Brazilian States; it is about 150 miles in length, and 35 miles in breadth at the widest part, and is separated from the sea by a narrow strip of land only; it discharges its water into the ocean ‘by a channel called the Rio Grande.