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Proudest among these crafts are the large Brazilian gunboats. "It is a curious anomaly," says the Scientific American, "that the most powerful Dreadnought afloat should belong to a South American republic, but it cannot be denied that the Minas Geraes is entitled to that distinction." This is one of the vessels that mutinied in 1910. Brazil is a strange republic.

Raleigh page 109. The basin of the Upper Orinoco, the Rio Negro, and the Amazon is bounded by the mountains of Parime on the north, and by those of Minas Geraes, and Matogrosso on the south. The opposite slopes of the same valley often display an analogy in their geological relations. I have described in this and the preceding volume the vast provinces of Venezuela and Spanish Guiana.

As he was slow and very prolix, he would never have sat down again, and God only knows what he would have said." The combined efforts of the Arundell family however, prevented so terrible a denouement, Burton easily proved his enemies' statements to be erroneous, and the order was eventually restored. Bibliography: 39. Medinah and Meccah. 3 vols. in one, 1873. 40. Minas Geraes. 7th January 1873.

At present I shall deal with the first one only, the one called the method by Cadinhes. The province of Minas Geraes ocupies a vast extent in the empire of Brazil, its superficies being about 900,000 square kilometers, representing nearly a third of the total surface.

Give me ten tons, only ten cartloads such stone as that, and I would buy a principality." Every one crowded round the stone open-mouthed, and James said: "Are you sure it is gold, Doctor?" "He asks me if I know gold, when I see it, me, you understand, who have scientifically examined all the best mines in Peru, not to mention the Minas Geraes in the Brazils!

At the same time the editors of special publications, such as Malte Brun's Annales des Voyages and the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, cordially accepted and published all the communications addressed to them, including many on Brazil and the province of Minas Geraës.

C. F. Stapp, Solomon Ginsburg and E. A. Jackson are attempting to carry forward the work in the vast States of Piauhy, Goyaz, a part of Minas Geraes, and Bahia, which last named State has in it one city as large as New Orleans.

It was at that time about the end of July, which is one of the coldest months in the year. In this part of Brazil summer and winter are reversed, the coldest months being May, June, and July; the hottest, November, December, January, and February. Minas Geraes, the diamond district, is one of the richest provinces of Brazil.

"Where do you come from, then?" asked Fragoso, who always had the idea that he had already met Torres somewhere. "From the province of Minas Geraes." "And you were born " "In the capital of the diamond district, Tijuco." Those who had seen Joam Garral at this moment would have been surprised at the fixity of his look which met that of Torres. "Yes," said Torres. "Do you hail from that province?"

As it was, minor insurrections were breaking out in the southern provinces, the reigning President could trust only in the navy, and the conservatism of commerce and society, as represented by the great landowners of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Minas Geraes, alone stifled the upgrowth of an overwhelming national movement in Dom Corria's favor.