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pered, the principal ones from the north to 
the south being Belem, or Para, San Luiz, 
Parnahyba, Fortaleza or Ceara, Natal, Para- 
hyba, Recife or Pernambuco, Maceio, Ara- 
caju, Sao Salvador or Bahia, Victoria, Rio de 
Janeiro, Santos, Paranagua, Sao Francisco, 
Rio Grande do Sul and Porto Allegre. As a 
rule each of these ports is the terminus for a 
railway system penetrating the interior, de 
signed solely for the purpose of bringing the 
products to market and carrying supplies and 
necessities to the part of the country dependent 
upon it. There are practically no trunk or 
interstate lines, but plans are now formulated 
to overcome this condition. 
Manaos is an inland port of Brazil, famous 
as a trading depot and one of the centers of 
the rubber industry. It is located on the Rio 
Negro, at its mouth where it empties into the 
great Amazon, one thousand miles from the 
Atlantic Ocean, and maintains direct steam 
ship connection with the United States and 
Europe as well as the other ports of Brazil. 
Perhaps no other country in the world is so