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National Geographic : 1911 Oct
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THE BRAZILIAN COFFEE COUNTRY MAP OF COFFEE DISTRICT OF BRAZIL the Parahyba River to the city of Sao Paulo, which lies in a position of im mense advantage to its commercial de velopment. To it from the north and west and south converge the numerous lines of railway, which tap the coffee plantations on the north, and over which, from the southwest, will soon come the through trains from Montevideo, across the great rolling campos of southern Brazil. From Sao Paulo to the seacoast, as if it were the narrow neck of a wide funnel, runs the the Sao Paulo Railway, across the open country and then down the steep, heavily forested, seaward slopes of the Serra do Mar to the port of Santos-a wonderful piece of engi neering, whose embankments and via ducts and masonry-work are well worth a long trip to see. Santos is the natural outlet for a great interior country, the importance and value of whose products are every day increasing. From the city of Sao Paulo the heart of the coffee country is reached in a short day's journey along one of the lines of railroad which go in a northerly or northwesterly direction across the open campos or through the scattering wood lands. Under the able direction of Dr. Orville A. Derby, at present chief of the Brazilian Geological and Mineralogical Survey, the State of Sao Paulo has been well mapped. Portions of it have even been modeled, as in the case of the vi cinity of Sao Paulo and Santos, and of the coffee district of Botucatu and Sao Manoel. In about two hours after leaving the city of Sao Paulo the traveler begins to see the first considerable coffee planta tions, and from that time on the journey 909
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