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TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



of rees. Since the arrival of the king, who with 

 paternal care wished to introduce throughout the 

 whole country a more strict and prompt adminis- 

 tration of justice, a more uniform collection of the 

 taxes, a more extensive, and therefore more ex- 

 pensive national education, the disbursements of 

 the province have been increased, but the re- 

 venues, the most important sources of which are 

 the export duties on colonial produce, and the tax 

 upon trades, have not been augmented in the same 

 proportion. The Portuguese government has ex- 

 perienced the same result in many other places, 

 which seems to indicate that the proper and happy 

 organisation of an infant country, rather depends 

 on the increase of the population, than on that of its 

 trade and its internal riches. There is perhaps no 

 province of Brazil, in which such solid and pro- 

 mising foundations for the prosperity of its future 

 inhabitants have been laid as here, where the 

 nature of the soil and the climate offer inexhaust- 

 ible resources of wealth. If the Swiss colony, the 

 establishment of which in Can ta-G alio, has cost 

 great sums without a suitable result, had been 

 placed in S. Paulo, in the cool plains, which are 

 peculiarly adapted for the breeding of cattle, it 

 would most certainly have prospered ; but the in- 

 tention of the government speedily to recover its 

 expenses by the receipt of export duties on the 

 colonial articles raised by the settlers, appears to 

 have opposed the promotion of a slow but certain 



