Produces sugar-cane, tobacco, and all tropical grains.

Pernambuco (between 7° 10´ and 9° 45´ lat. South).—Possesses unexplored mines, timber; Brazil wood, breeds excellent cattle.

Produces very abundantly sugar-cane, cotton, and all tropical products.

Parahyba (between 6° 15´ and 7° 50´ lat. South).—Possesses gold mines, iron ores, saltpetre; timber and wood for cabinet work, Brazil wood; breeds cattle.

Produces sugar cane, cotton, and all tropical grains.

Rio Grande do Norte (between 4° and 6° 10´ lat. South).—Possesses gold and silver mines, abundant Brazil wood, carnaúba, cochineal; breeds cattle.

Produces cotton, sugar-cane, and all tropical grains.

Ceara (between 2° 45´ and 7° 10´ lat. South),—Possesses mines of gold, silver, lead, iron, antimonium, amianthus, coal, marble, nitron, salines; timber, wood for cabinet work and dyeing, quinine, ipecacuanha, carnaúba; breeds excellent cattle.

Produces coffee, sugar-cane, cotton.

Piauhy (between 2° 40´ and 11° 25´ lat. South).—Breeds much cattle, horses and mules.