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new district beyond the Rio Saracuro. Eastwards 'spreads another quarter, 

 occupied chiefly by Italians, where the badly kept streets and open drains con- 

 trast unfavourably with the handsome structures and villas of the western parts. 

 But the drainage is everywhere defective, and despite its altitude of 2,4G0 feet 

 above the sea, and an abundance of pure water brought by an aqueduct from the 

 Serra Cantareira, S. Paulo is not quite healthy. In recent years it has even occa- 

 sionally been visited by yellow fever introduced from Santos. A fine public 

 park stretches north of the city, near the "English" station, and a botanic 



Fig. 94.— S. Pauio. 

 Scale 1 : 130,000. 



4£°40 West oF Greenwich 



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2* Miles. 



garden is being laid out in connection with the neighbouring natural history 

 museum. 



The old Jesuit college has been transformed to the government palace, and 

 the house built by the fathers for the Indiun cacique, Tebycira, has been 

 replaced by the Convent of S. Bento. jN'ear these structures stand the cliief 

 monuments, churches, post-office, banks, and school of law, " the eyrie," where 

 are incubated the future politicians of the country. The population, nearly half 

 Italian, appears to have increased about threefold during the past decade, and in 

 recent years S. Paulo has become a busy industrial hive, as well as a great 

 agricultural centre. Amongst the attractions of the neighbourhood are the race- 



