Identifier: earthitsinhabita941recl (find matches)
Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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40 40° West oF Greenwich Foreigu possessions. wm vm Brazil. Spanish republics. ___^_^__ 1.240 Miles. wards, gradually absorbed the whole of the natural region comprising the easternfoothills and the great wooded plains of the interior. Occupying distinct geographical domains, Brazil and the Andean and Argen-tine republics have been historically developed on faintly parallel lines. Theirpopulations, differing in speech as well as in their traditions and usages, have buta feeble sentiment of a common solidarity. Nevertheless, recent events, which SPANISH AND POETUGUESE SOUTH AMERICA. 49 have replaced tlie imperial system in Brazil by a federal republic analogous tothat of several Hispano-American states, will have the inevitable consequence ofbringing the two groups of Latin populations into closer contact, especially in the Fig. IG.—Ethnical Divisions op South Ameeica in 1893.Scale 1 ; 58,000,000.
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West oF Greenwich 60° a Spaniaids pure Portuguese pureand mixed. and mixed. English andAnglicised. Blacks Blacks and Mulat-and Mulattoes. toes in majority. 1,240 Miles. La Plata basin, where Brazil is conterminous with Paraguay, Fruguay, and Argen-tina. Here a levelling process in social respects, and even in speech, is alreadyin progress between the neighbouring populations. But, despite all contrasts, South America remains as a whole the Latin con-tinent in a pre-eminent sense. With the exception of Trinidad and Tobago, 50 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES EEGIONS. Curaçao and neighbouring islets, British and Dutcli Guianas, and the Falklandarchipelago, the whole territory belongs to peoples of Romance speech, while thelargest stream of immigrants directed to this region are Italians, the most directheirs of Roman culture. Thus the ruling race in this part of the world presentsa sort of balance, in its different character and natural genius, to the Anglo-Saxons dominant in North America f

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