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force of the south-west wind which prevails in winter 

 is more felt as the wide opening of the great estuary 

 is reached. During my own short stay, the wind 

 never rose beyond a gentle breeze, and the temperature 

 on land was no more than agreeably cool, usually 

 between 55° and 60° Fahr. during the day. 



The distance from Monte Video to Santos, which is 

 reckoned at 970 sea miles, was accomplished in about 

 three days and eighteen hours. The voyage was 

 uneventful. On the 3rd we approached the Brazilian 

 coast, but the land lay low, and no objects could be 

 distinguished. The weather was all that could be 

 desired by the most delicate passengers, the barometer 

 remaining almost stationary at about 30*2 inches,* 

 and the temperature by day rising gradually from 

 S7° at Monte Video to 62° in lat. 25° south. Before 

 sunrise on the morning of July 5, we entered the bay 

 through which the Santos river discharges itself into 

 the Atlantic, and found ourselves in a new region. 

 The richness of the green and the luxuriance of the 

 foliage recalled the aspect of the coast at Jacmel, in 

 Hayti, and as the morning advanced, while we slowly 

 steamed towards the head of the bay, I had no 

 difficulty in deciding on a course which had already 

 suggested itself to my mind. I knew that Santos is 

 connected by railway with Sao Paulo (better known 

 in the form San Paulo), the chief town of this part of 

 Brazil, and that the railway between that place and 

 the capital was also completed ; and I accordingly 



* Dr. Hann (" Klimatologie," p. 657, et scq.) has discussed the causes 

 of the prevalent high barometric pressure on both coasts of temperate 

 South America, and has shown that in winter the area of maximum 

 pressure moves northward towards the Tropic of Capricorn. 



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