SPANISH AND POETUGUESE SOUTH AMERICA. 



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have replaced tlie imperial system in Brazil by a federal republic analogous to 

 that of several Hispano- American states, will have the inevitable consequence of 

 bringing the two groups of Latin populations into closer contact, especially in the 



Fig'. IG. — Ethnical Divisions op South Ameeica in 1893. 

 Scale 1 ; 58,000,000. 



West oF Greenwich 60° 



a 



Spaniaids pure Portuguese pure 

 and mixed. and mixed. 



English and 

 Anglicised. 



Blacks Blacks and Mulat- 

 and Mulattoes. toes in majority. 



1,240 Miles. 



La Plata basin, where Brazil is conterminous with Paraguay, Fruguay, and Argen- 

 tina. Here a levelling process in social respects, and even in speech, is already 

 in progress between the neighbouring populations. 



But, despite all contrasts, South America remains as a whole the Latin con- 

 tinent in a pre-eminent sense. With the exception of Trinidad and Tobago, 



