| Show PUT SCIENCE TO NEW USE I Irulllx InitiiiiUInn Vow aeleeting a nil for Illn Janrlrn IUD de Janeiro the capital of llrasll has a notoriously bad climate 111 Is a fastness of yellow fever And subtle tropes trop-es Ailments and the death rale Is I at alarmingly blith as to seriously affect the comiierclal prinporlly of Ihe city Home lime ago the llrailllan gotrrn mtnt took In band the question of removing re-moving their capital and appointed a scientific commission lo fix a site says Ihe ritUburR Dispatch The commission commis-sion have selected n plateau which should bn A real land of promise to the ransmlgrants from the coast The spot Is I between the parallels of IS d < Rrees < 0 minutes and It degrees I see mute south nnd the inerldlsn of I degree de-gree 30 minutes nnd II degree west 1 It Is I aver 4000 feet nhovn the level of the sea and Its temierature rencmhlc that nf middle Vance There Is plenty tmf water for agriculture omit no ytllxw fiver The journey by rallna from hi const Is I n mailer nf some eighteen imirs This Is I believed to Iw I the first occasion 1 nn record In which science has Inn called In I to choose Ihl site of n capital |
