Review of reviews and world's work . Vto EuafMtring XoinutM MAP OF THE HARBOR OF PARA. BRAZIL. THE AMERICAN REVIEW Oh RHI^ 1 A PARA RIVER STEAMER IN DRY DOCK. Para has had to be carried on by an expen-se system of lighterage, or else freight has had be transferred from river steamers to oceaniamers under the difficulties of wind and tide. Owing to the great variety of its uses, rub-r has become one of the necessaries ofmmerce, and it is to this fact that Paraves its great developments. It will be re-embered that about six years ago a waras impending between Brazil and Bolivia?er the bou
Review of reviews and world's work . Vto EuafMtring XoinutM MAP OF THE HARBOR OF PARA. BRAZIL. THE AMERICAN REVIEW Oh RHI^ 1 A PARA RIVER STEAMER IN DRY DOCK. Para has had to be carried on by an expen-se system of lighterage, or else freight has had be transferred from river steamers to oceaniamers under the difficulties of wind and tide. Owing to the great variety of its uses, rub-r has become one of the necessaries ofmmerce, and it is to this fact that Paraves its great developments. It will be re-embered that about six years ago a waras impending between Brazil and Bolivia?er the boundary of Acre. To quote Clair: Rubber was at the bottom of it, and thisare flashed a limelight upon Para and themazon valley. It awoke not only Brazil andjlivia. ... It did more. It aroused theiblic spirit of the city of Para and caused itseat rubber exporters to move with the power an avalanche for a modern port. Many yearsevious a municipal commission had made arvey of the port and charted it, with its riverrrents and tides. With this survey as a basise federal government approached an Ameri-n corporation building
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