Volume 2

Travels in Brazil, in the years 1817-1820 : undertaken by command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria / by Joh. Bapt. von Spix and C.F. Phil. von Martius.

  • Johann Baptist von Spix
Date:
1824
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels in Brazil, in the years 1817-1820 : undertaken by command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria / by Joh. Bapt. von Spix and C.F. Phil. von Martius. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. BOOK III. CHAPTER I. Stay in the city of S. Paulo. ~ Page 1-—40. Topography of the city. — Historical character of the Paulistas.—Population. — Public Institutions. — Theatre. — Popular Poetry. — Manufactory of arms. — Breeding of silk-worms and cochineal insects. —> Trade. — Import¬ ation. — Exportation. — Manufactures of the capitania. — Weather. — Climate. — Natural productions. — Geognos- tical characteristics. — Diseases in the city. — Municipal and military constitution. — Official lists of the population. — Agricultural produce and commerce of the capitania. CHAPTER II. Journey from the city of S. Paulo, to the Iron Foundry at Ypanema. - Page4<l—102. Journey by way of Cutia, S. Roque and Sorocaba to S. Joao de Ypanema. -— Royal iron foundry. —- Iron
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