The campos along the banks of the River Amazon are equal to six times the size of France; and there is one great plain which lies between the Sierra Ibiapaba and the River Tocantins which is 600 miles long by 400 miles broad.

There are very few lakes in Brazil, and only one worth speaking of--the Lagoa dos Platos--which is 150 miles long.

But our rivers are the finest in the whole world, being so long, and wide, and deep, and free from falls, that they afford splendid communication with the interior of the land.

But, alas! there are few ships on these rivers yet, very few.

The rivers in the north part of Brazil are so numerous and interlaced that they are much like the veins in the human body; and the great River Amazon and a few of its chief tributaries resemble the arteries.
"Then as to our produce," continued the hermit, "who can tell it all?
We export sugar, and coffee, and cotton, and gold, silver, lead, zinc, quicksilver, and amethysts, and we have diamond mines--" "Di'mond mines!" echoed Barney; "och but I would like for to see them.
Sure they would sparkle most beautiful.