L' Allemagne économique ou histoire du Zollverein Allemand

Der Wirtschaftskampf der Völker und seine internationale Regelung

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Identifikator:: 832279064

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-64432

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Worms, Émile

Title:: L' Allemagne économique ou histoire du Zollverein Allemand

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Ainé

Year of publication:: 1874

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 631 S)

Collection:: Economics Books

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BRAZIL 17 Brazil is so immense, situated between the fifth degree north and the thirty-third degree south, and its topography so varied that it has all kinds of climates excepting extreme cold. Lying in the temperate and tropical zones one would incline to the belief that it would be more or less warm, but its many rivers and mountains, its high table-lands and plateaus exert a beneficial influence in this regard and materially modify what otherwise would be extreme degrees of heat. More than half of Brazil is an elevated plateau, varying from 2000 to 3000 feet in altitude. It has four distinct mountain ranges, which deflect its rains and form vast watersheds for irrigating the fertile lands at their base. The eastern and central portions are elevated while the chief characteristics of the north and west are its fertile plains and valleys. The coast of Brazil straggles along for over 5000 miles and is provided with numerous natural harbors, where the earlier settlers es tablished cities which have grown and pros

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