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BRAZIL

TODAY AND TOMORROW

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

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TORONTO

Botafogo Bay, Rio de Janeiro.
In the background are the Dois Irmãos Mountains, the flat-topped Gavea, and the curved granite peak of Corcovado.

BRAZIL
TODAY AND TOMORROW

BY

L. E. ELLIOTT, F. R. G. S., F. R. A. I., Etc.

AUTHOR OF “BLACK GOLD,” “CHILE, TODAY AND TOMORROW,” etc. LITERARY EDITOR, PAN AMERICAN MAGAZINE

ILLUSTRATED

“The time will come when the Ocean will no longer limit the known lands, when a new world shall be opened up to the followers of the sea, and Thule will be no longer the Ultima Thule of the earth.”

Seneca, “Medea.”

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1922

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1917,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1917.

Revised Edition October, 1922.

Printed in the United States of America

TO

M. L. E.