. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 192 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. up the surrouudiug valleys. Here are the suburbs of Icarahij, Junijaha, and S. Lourenço, the last-named originally a native settlement occupied by those Indians who had sided with the Portuguese in their wars Avith the French. Despite the vast space which it covers, Rio has a population which, according to the rough returns for 1893, cannot be estimated at more than about half a million. The official census of the municipality for 1890 gave 48,576 houses and Fig. 79.—Rio de Janeiro. Scale 1 : 90, Oto 16 Feet. Depths
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 192 AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. up the surrouudiug valleys. Here are the suburbs of Icarahij, Junijaha, and S. Lourenço, the last-named originally a native settlement occupied by those Indians who had sided with the Portuguese in their wars Avith the French. Despite the vast space which it covers, Rio has a population which, according to the rough returns for 1893, cannot be estimated at more than about half a million. The official census of the municipality for 1890 gave 48,576 houses and Fig. 79.—Rio de Janeiro. Scale 1 : 90, Oto 16 Feet. Depths. 16 to 32 Feet. 32 to 64 Feet. 2,200 Yards. 64 Feet and upwards. 7I,G07 f;imiHes, which, allowing seven persons to the family, would make almost exactly 500,000. But the FluminemeH, or " River Folk," as the inhabitants of Rio are familiarly called, often exnggerate the population of their city, and are reluctant to admit that in this respect Buenos Ayres takes the foremost place amongst the cities of South America. They speak in an off-hand way of "a million" as about the population of the Brazilian capital, "including the ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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