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course, markets will have to be found. At the 

 same time, many articles of ordinary food required 

 for the consumption of the people, and which could 

 easily be grown on the spot, continued to be largely 

 imported, notably flour. We do not say that Brazil 

 is poorer from having this large growth of Coffee 

 quite the contrary but she would be both richer 

 and more independent if much of her food was 

 grown on the spot, for internal consumption ; and 

 that this should be the case with her new rail- 

 ways there can be no question. Brazil is suffering 

 severely for having overdone Coffee cultivation and 

 neglected the raising of food products needed by 

 her people." 



There does not seem to be any inducement for 

 young Englishmen to establish themselves here 

 while so much good soil under their own flag can 

 be obtained. Not a little Brazilian Coffee is sold 

 under the specious names of Laguara, Guatemala, 

 Costa Rica, Martinique, &c. 



MEXICO. 



From the Official English "Commercial Reports" 

 we gather that the production of Coffee as an 

 article of Mexican export may be said to have com- 

 menced within the past ten years. Previous to 1870 

 the imports of it into France and England were so 

 insignificant as not to merit separate mention in 



