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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. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... built, for which the rails are still nearly all to be bought. Alcobaca Railway (projected).--Both as being a.promising field for enterprise and as being just on the point of slipping from the finger ends of an American company who have had it in full grasp, the Alcobaca Railway is of special interest just at present The State of Goyaz, which forms a part of the Para consular district, is an interior region, having no way of communication with the seaboard better than a long mule route overland to Maranham, or a dangerous one months journey in canoes down the river Tocantins, or six months on the return trip. But the State is cut by the upper river Tocantins in different directions, which river, with its tributaries, furnishes more than 1,000 miles of" clear and uninterrupted water for steam navigation above the rapids in a healthy, fertile, and somewhat populated upland region of country. There are large stretches of grazing lands abounding in cattle, forests rich in medicinal and other valuable products, as well as excellent woods and mines of different sorts, especially of gold, which for more than a century have been known to be immensely productive, but abandoned for various reasons, good enough for the tropics, but unsatisfactory to Anglo-Saxon energy. A railroad around the rapids of the Tocantins River is the key to the immense and almost untouched wealth of Goyaz. THE TELEGRAPH SYSTEM. In May, 1888, according to the report made to Parliament by the Minister of Public Works, there existed in Brazil 6,380 miles of telegraph lines, with 11,018 miles of wire, constructed and operated by the Government. In the year i886-87 there were transmitted 528,161 messages, containing 6,972,962 words. The receipts were $741,000 and gave a...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153360128 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153360128 |
| Weight | 1.61 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.11 In |
| List Price | $26.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 500 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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