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steep slopes are clad with luxuriant selvas of the 

 Amazon type. This configuration appears to be con- 

 tinued south-west to the edge of the plateau, beyond 

 which, in lower Matto Grosso, the plain assumes a rolling 



FIG. 48. Brazilian Savana, Matto Grosso. 



character, without materially changing the nature of its 

 grass carpet. 



The country is scarcely inhabited but for warlike 

 Indians, and for obvious reasons most of the human 



