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the magnitude of its territory, the greatness of its re- 
sources, its military strength and successes, its enlight- 
ened and reforming chief ruler, the substantial liber- 
ality of its political institutions, and the unbroken 
domestic tranquillity of its independent life, so strik- 
ingly in contrast with the revolutionary agitations of 
most of the Spanish-American Republics. 
Marcos Antonio d’Araujo belongs to that numer. 
ous body of jurists and statesmen, the natural growth 
of parliamentary’ institutions based on popular elec- 
tion, who do honor at the present time to Brazil. He 
filled in early life the chair of Professor of Jurispru- 
dence in the University of Pernambuco. His first 
diplomatic appointment was that of Consul-General 
of Brazil in the Hanse Towns, with residence at Ham- 
burg. After that he held successively the offices of 
Minister or Envoy at Hanover, at Copenhagen, at 
Berlin, and finally at Paris. At the time of his ap- 
pointment as Arbitrator he was Envoy Extraordi- 
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Brazil in France, 
by the tjtle of Baron d’Htajubd, and he was made a 
Viscount during the progress of the Arbitration. 
With exception, therefore, of the judicial studies 
and occupations of his youth, the Viscount of Itajuba 
is a diplomatist, having passed nearly forty years of 
his life in the discharge of diplomatic functions in 
different countries of Europe. He possesses all the 
qualities of his chreer and station, namely, courteous 
and attractive manners, intelligence disciplined by long 
experience of men and affairs, instinctive appreciation 
of principles and facts, and the ready expression of: 
