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CHIEF EXPORTS OF THREE AMERICAN

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CHIEF EXPORTS OF THREE See also:AMERICAN COUNTRIES (In millions See also:sterling.) S Animals and products 48 ? Agricultural products 23 See also:Coffee 33 See also:Rubber Nitrates 17 See also:Copper 2 See also:Settlement.—The See also:continent as a whole is but sparsely settled. The See also:total See also:population in 1905 was reckoned to be 38,482,000. About See also:half of it, including all the most inaccessible portions, had a population probably not much exceeding what it had at the See also:period of the See also:discovery. It averaged five persons to the square mile, while in See also:North See also:America it was 13 and in See also:Europe 104 to the square mile. The most thickly populated parts are on and near the See also:sea-See also:coast. On the See also:east seaboard a more densely populated narrow See also:belt follows the coast from near See also:Natal just See also:south of Cape St Roque to and south of Buenos Aires. About the cities of Perrambuco, See also:Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, See also:Montevideo and Buenos Aires the areas of greater See also:density widen, and, in some instances (notably near Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires) extend inland for several See also:hundred See also:miles. The considerably populated belt begins on the See also:west coast about See also:latitude 42° and follows northward and eastward to the See also:island of See also:Trinidad on the Venezuelan coast, though there are stretches of coast almost entirely uninhabited. Several of the largest cities of South America compare favourably with the finest cities of Europe. The best streets of Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires and See also:Valparaiso are among the most attractive in any See also:part of the See also:world. The large cities are all well supplied with See also:water, lighted with See also:electricity, possess facilities for transport and are supplied with public See also:libraries, museums of See also:science and arts and educational institutions.

Communications.—The commercial relations of South America with the outside world are maintained by a large number of See also:

regular and well-equipped lines of steamers See also:running between its ports and See also:European ports. There is also a large See also:freight business done by steamers sailing at irregular periods, and by sailing vessels. Connexions with the interior of the continent were for a See also:long See also:time See also:con-fined to See also:navigation along the See also:principal streams and to tedious overland travel on horseback along almost impassable trails. Since 1858, however, when the first 3o-m. See also:section of the Dom Pedro II railway from Rio de Janeiro to Queimados was opened, See also:railways have extended far inland and even across the See also:Andes. The See also:boring of the See also:tunnel completing railway connexion between Buenos Aires and Valparaiso was completed in See also:November 1909. Railway See also:building has been especially active in See also:Brazil and in the See also:Argentine See also:Republic. From Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo lines now penetrate the See also:highlands of See also:Minas Geraes, while frot.I Buenos Aires they See also:cover the most productive portions of the Argentine Republic, and bring some portions of the interiors of these countries into See also:close communication with all parts of the world. In the meanwhile See also:river and coastwise navigation has greatly See also:developed. The railway mileage of the various countries was approximately as follows in 1906: Miles of Railway. Argentine Republic .. .. 11,460 See also:Bolivia 700 Brazil 10,408 See also:Chile 2,800489 Miles of Railway.

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