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Show IS VERY THINLY POPUU South America, With 7,276,000 Saw Miles of Territory, Has 0nlv 50,000,000 Inhabitants. South America is thinly ,,,, The Spanish and Portuguese Z ments, which divided South Ameri between themselves In 1494, made 11, tie effort to attract immigration,, their own people and denied auufei to peoples of other lands. The ,J were administered as crown eoloni Large land grants were made to com favorites. There was little oppoJ nity for individual enterprise, even the continent had been opea to eiu. prising men. It was only after the Latin rer lies had thrown off the rule of Smi, and Portugal that South Aniwk, threw open her doors to the Imini-m tion of the world. But revolutions mi epidemics decimated the population and the continuance of the great lanj holdings, which were just being br en up, prevented the close setting m the country, so that even noff South America, with an area of 7,27C.i"t square miles as against Xorth AiIm-ica's AiIm-ica's 3,559,909, has a population t only about 50,000,000. Yet she has' millions of acres of 593 as rich as the world knows, and aim ' whose richness passes belief, and waterways wa-terways reaching to the heart of continent, and opportunities almost e-measured. |