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AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA. 



Yinces " they became "■ States," although these divisions were singularly defective 

 in every respect, in no way corresponding to such us would be formed, had the 

 people themselves been consulted. Apart from Amazonia and Matto Grosso, which 

 are in reality not States so much as territories awaiting future settlement, the 

 vast region of Bahia has for neighbours the two former provinces of Alagoas and 

 Sergipe, one seven the other eleven times snaaller. It may, however, be pri-sumed 



Fig. 123. — Political Divisions of Beazil. 

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that the fluctuating and ill-defined frontiers of so many conterminous States 

 may still be rectified, in accordance with the physical and social coiiditions. 



Possibly new groups will be constituted, which may have the effect of shifting 

 the present political equilibrium. But meantime it seems surprising that, in a 

 nation connected by federal ties, the old royal decrees, rather than the wishes and 

 interests of the people, are consulted in distributing the inhabitants of the Republic 

 in distinct and autonomous political divisions 



