. The earth and its inhabitants .. . selected as tlie federal capital. The commission appointed to examine the rival claims and report on the most convenient site for the future metropolis of Brazil has revived the idea of the Marquis de Pombal, who favoured S. Paulo. It recommended in the first place Varzea do Marçal, in a pleasant gently sloping valley, which stretches east of S. Joâo beyond the Kio das Mortes. Although pent up in a narrow gorge with steep escarpments preventing the free circulation of the air, and close to a deep sink where were formerly collected the waters of the sur- rou
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . selected as tlie federal capital. The commission appointed to examine the rival claims and report on the most convenient site for the future metropolis of Brazil has revived the idea of the Marquis de Pombal, who favoured S. Paulo. It recommended in the first place Varzea do Marçal, in a pleasant gently sloping valley, which stretches east of S. Joâo beyond the Kio das Mortes. Although pent up in a narrow gorge with steep escarpments preventing the free circulation of the air, and close to a deep sink where were formerly collected the waters of the sur- rounding mines, S. Jojio is a healthy town. Varzea do Marcal would appear to be still more favourably situated on breezy terraces with abundance of pure water and ample space for expansion in the direction of Tiradentes. The southern region of Minas Geraes, wedged in between the States of Rio de Janeiro and S. Paulo, abounds more than any other part of Brazil in thermal waters. Here are to be found, within easy reach of the capital and in a salu- brious climate, all the restorative conditions which so many citizens of Rio travel yearly all the way to Europe in search of. The hills rising to the south of Campanha bear the name of Serra das Aguas Virtuosas, " Range of the Salutary Waters," and the church erected on the spot has been dedicated to •' Our Lady of ; Strangers have already been attracted to the Lamhary springs, near the river of like name, but in less numbers than to those of Cax- ambu, a watering-place over two miles south-west of Baependy, at the foot of a dome-shaped mountain. The six chief springs of this place, gaseous and alkaline, resemble those of Coutrexeville. Other mineral streams occur at Coutendas, in a neighbouring valley, and 125 miles farther west Galdas, formerly Onro Fino, occupies the centre of another thermal region draining through the Rio Sapucahy to the Rio Grande. In this rugged mountainous district Poços de Caldas, with
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