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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 380 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BARBACENA , an inland See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Brazil, in the See also:

state of See also:

MINAS [MINOIDES] (c. 1790-186o)

Minas Geraes, 150 M. N.N.W. of Rio de Janeiro and about 3500 ft. above See also:

sea-level. The surrounding See also:

DISTRICT

district is chiefly agricultural, producing See also:

COFFEE (Fr: cafe, Ger. Kaffee)

coffee, See also:

SUGAR

sugar-See also:

CANE

cane, See also:

INDIAN

Indian See also:

corn and 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, and the town has considerable commercial importance. It is also noted for its' healthiness and possesses a large See also:

SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium much frequented by convalescents from Rio de Janeiro during 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. Barbacena was formerly a See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal distributing centre for the See also:

MINING

mining districts of Minas Geraes, but this distinction was lost when the See also:

RAILWAYS

railways were extended beyond that point.

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