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Show The Bigness of Brazil. Brazil has an area of 3,280,000 square miles, or that of tho United States with half of Alaska added. This Is. approximately, approxi-mately, nvo-slxlbs of tho whole of Europe, Eu-rope, or almost 100 times the size of tho mother country. Compared oven with Australia, Brazil not only holdB her own, but has a surplus aroa that would overlap over-lap the Stnr.o of Texas, whllo on her own continent she almost oimals the combined com-bined ureas of the othor twelve ropubllcs and colonies, one-half of Argentina only having to bo deducted. This will readily bo apparent on consulting an atlas, as will the cquully astonishing statement that her oxtremo length from north to south Is approximately thirty-eight and ono-half degrees, or tho dlstanco from tho northern extremity of Malno to tho coast of Venezuela.. Finally, dividing tho land area of the now world by language into Englloh, Spanish and Portuguoso (which Includes all but llnytl and tho small colonial holdings of Franco, Holland and Denmark), Den-mark), wo arrive at tho following re-markablo re-markablo facts' Tho Unltod Statos with Alaska, Canada Including tho Islands within, tlio Arctic cirula, TuwJaiind1:m(l. British Guiana, British Honduras and the various British islands of the West Indies In-dies make a total of 48 per cent of the whole; the eighteen Spanish-speaking republics, re-publics, with Porto Rico, 30 per cent, Brazil alone making up the remainder, or 22 por cent. And yet, to the average American, tho Portuguese language Is regarded practically as a negligible quantity, quan-tity, while many of our exporters complacently com-placently classify Brazil as Spanish-speaking, Spanish-speaking, regarding It, no doubt, llko French Guiana, as too unimportant to occupy a place by Itself. G. M. L. Brown and Franklin Adams In the Review of Reviews. |