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BRANNER 



very slowly and during daylight. The only other geological 

 observations we have upon the region traversed by this railway 

 are those made by Hartt, who went from Santa Clara to Theo- 

 philo Ottoni in 1866, by the newly opened road across the 

 country, some leagues south of the railway and parallel with it 



save near its upper end, 

 where both the road 

 and the railway are in 

 the valley of the Rio 

 Todos OS Santos.^ 

 Hartt speaks of the 

 crystalline rocks as 

 gneiss veined with 

 granite. 



The Bahia and 

 Minas Railway leaves 

 the sea coast at Ponta 

 d'Areia, the terminal 

 station, near the city 

 of Caravellas, in the 

 State of Bahia, and 

 runs nearly due west to 

 the city of Theophilo 

 Ottoni (formerly called 

 Philadelphia) in the 

 State of Minas Geraes, 

 a distance of 376 kilo- 

 meters. The region 

 traversed consists of 

 three well - defined 

 belts : a flat coastal plain, a belt of table lands, partly forest 

 covered and partly campos, and a region of crystalline rocks. 



Along the first ten kilometers the line passes over a flat, 

 sandy, coastal plain that rises less than three meters above high 

 tide level. The highest point measured over this coastal belt is 

 near the village of Barra de Caravellas, where it is 2.2 meters 



MAP 



SHOWINCTHE POSITION OF THE 

 □AHIA E MlNAa RAILWAY 



eiV 9&aitnetit3. 



Fig. 5. Coast of Brazil from Rio to Bahia. 



' Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil, by C. F. Hartt ; pp. 129-134. 

 Boston, 1870. 



