Produces wheat, flax, grapes, and nearly all the fruits of temperate climates; tea, coffee, and sugar-cane in great abundance; cotton, tobacco, and all the grains of tropical countries.
Rio de Janeiro (Capital of the Empire of Brazil, between 21° 25´ and 23° 25´ lat. South).—Possesses iron mines, clays for china ware and porcelain; woods and timber of all sorts.
Produces excellent coffee and sugar-cane, tea, cotton, and all the grains of the tropics.
Espirito Santo (between 18° 50´ and 21° 20´ lat. South).—Possesses gold, iron, and diamond mines; excellent timber and woods for cabinet work; breeds cattle.
Produces coffee, sugar-cane, cotton, and all the grains of the tropics.
Bahia (between 9° 35´ and 18° lat. South).—Possesses rich gold, diamond, silver, iron, copper, coal, and marble mines; timber and Brazil wood; breeds cattle.
Produces sugar-cane, coffee, excellent tobacco, cotton, cocoa, clove, and all the grains of the tropics.
Sergipe (between 10° 30´ and 11° 40´ lat. South).—Possesses gold and diamond mines; marble, crystals, nitron, nitrates of soda salts; iron, slate, salines, precious woods and plants, vanilla.
Produces abundantly sugar-cane, cotton, and all tropical grains.
Alagoas (between 8° 50´ and 10° 80´ lat. South).—Possesses mines of anthracite, bituminous schist; timber, Brazil wood.