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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 467 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ALAGOAS , a maritime See also:

state of See also:

Brazil, bounded N. and W. by the state of See also:

PERNAMBUCO

Pernambuco, S. and W. by the state of See also:

SERGIPE (originally SERGIPE D'EL-REY)

Sergipe, and E. by the See also:

ATLANTIC

Atlantic. It has an See also:

AREA

area of 22,584 sq. m. A dry, semi-barren See also:

plateau, See also:

FIT

fit for grazing only, extends across the W. See also:

PART

part of the state, breaking down into See also:

long fertile valleys and wooded ridges towards the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, giving the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country a mountainous See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character. The coastal See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain is filled with lakes (lagoas) , in some cases formed by the blocking up of See also:

RIVER

river outlets by See also:

BEACH

beach sands. The valleys and slopes are highly fertile and produce See also:

SUGAR

sugar, See also:

cotton, See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco, See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

corn, See also:

rice, mandioca and fruits. Hides and skins, mangabeira See also:

RUBBER, INDIARUBBER

rubber, See also:

CABINET

cabinet See also:

woods, See also:

CASTOR

castor beans and See also:

rum are also exported. See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

Cattle-raising was formerly a prominent See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, but it has greatly declined. Manufactures have been See also:

DEVELOPED

developed to a limited extent only, though protective See also:

TARIFF (adapted in English from the French; the word comes through the Spanish tarifa, a list or schedule of prices, from the Arabic, ta'rifa, information, an inventory, 'arf, know-ledge)

tariff See also:

LAWS

laws have been adopted for their encouragement. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is hot and humid, and fevers are prevalent in the hot See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season. The See also:

capital, Maceio, is the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief commercial See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of the state, and its See also:

PORT

port (Jaragua) has a large See also:

FOREIGN

foreign and coastwise See also:

trade. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal towns are Alagoas, formerly the capital, picturesquely situated on See also:

Lake Manguaba, 15 m. S.W. of Maceio, and Penedo, a small port on the See also:

LOWER

lower Sao Francisco, 26 m. above the river's mouth.

Before 1817 Alagoas formed part of the capitania of Pernambuco, but in that See also:

YEAR

year the See also:

DISTRICT

district was rewarded with a See also:

SEPARATE

separate See also:

government for refusing to join a revolution, and in 1823 became a See also:

province of the See also:

EMPIRE

empire. The See also:

ADVENT (Lat. Adventus, sc. Redemptoris, " the coming of the Saviour ")

advent of the See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic in 1889 changed the province into a state.

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