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up the surrouudiug valleys. Here are the suburbs of Icarahij, Junijaha, and S. 

 Lourenço, the last-named originally a native settlement occupied by those Indians 

 who had sided with the Portuguese in their wars Avith the French. 



Despite the vast space which it covers, Rio has a population which, according 

 to the rough returns for 1893, cannot be estimated at more than about half a 

 million. The official census of the municipality for 1890 gave 48,576 houses and 



Fig. 79.— Rio de Janeiro. 

 Scale 1 : 90,000. 



Oto 16 

 Feet. 



Depths. 



16 to 32 

 Feet. 



32 to 64 



Feet. 



2,200 Yards. 



64 Feet 

 and upwards. 



7I,G07 f;imiHes, which, allowing seven persons to the family, would make almost 

 exactly 500,000. But the FluminemeH, or " River Folk," as the inhabitants of 

 Rio are familiarly called, often exnggerate the population of their city, and are 

 reluctant to admit that in this respect Buenos Ayres takes the foremost place 

 amongst the cities of South America. They speak in an off-hand way of "a 

 million" as about the population of the Brazilian capital, "including the 

 suburbs." 



