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THE PARIS EXHIBITION. 267
CHAPTER XXV.
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AMERICA.
The contributions of Central and Southern America are so
mixed up together at the Exhibition, that we shall have to
examine them collectively, and not one country after the other
as we generally do. They may be divided into three distinct
classes : the raw produce of the country, manufactures from
Creoles, or settlers, and specimens of native industry.
The first of these classes naturally forms the largest and
most interesting collection.
Taking first the products yielded by the surface of the soil,
we find no less than two hundred and fifty-one exhibitors
from Brazil,, in the section of " agricultural products not
used for food."
The Provinces of Para, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and Rio
Grande do Sul, send their tobacco, cotton, india-rubber, flax,
and hemp ; Rio Grande do Norte, Ceara, and Parana, show a
large assortment of wax, oils, and resins.
Vegetable fibres and tows offer an immense variety. Be-
sides the well-known kinds, like cocoa, aloe, pine-apple,, and
wild nettles, there are quantities of new ones, such as tata-
juba, matamata, curana, mamore, tanarireya, mority, mahsima,
tucum, granata, tucuman,periquita, acapourana, couraoua, embira,
CHAPTER XXV.
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AMERICA.
The contributions of Central and Southern America are so
mixed up together at the Exhibition, that we shall have to
examine them collectively, and not one country after the other
as we generally do. They may be divided into three distinct
classes : the raw produce of the country, manufactures from
Creoles, or settlers, and specimens of native industry.
The first of these classes naturally forms the largest and
most interesting collection.
Taking first the products yielded by the surface of the soil,
we find no less than two hundred and fifty-one exhibitors
from Brazil,, in the section of " agricultural products not
used for food."
The Provinces of Para, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and Rio
Grande do Sul, send their tobacco, cotton, india-rubber, flax,
and hemp ; Rio Grande do Norte, Ceara, and Parana, show a
large assortment of wax, oils, and resins.
Vegetable fibres and tows offer an immense variety. Be-
sides the well-known kinds, like cocoa, aloe, pine-apple,, and
wild nettles, there are quantities of new ones, such as tata-
juba, matamata, curana, mamore, tanarireya, mority, mahsima,
tucum, granata, tucuman,periquita, acapourana, couraoua, embira,