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BRAZIL.
In the navy estimates for 18G9-70, the number of sailors and ma- rines in the Imperial fleet was fixed at 3,000 on the peace-footing, and at 6,000 on the war-footing. The navy is manned by enlistment, both from among foreigners, who may be willing to serve, and natives. In case of necessity, impressment is resorted to, the same as in the army. — (Communication of the Imperial Government to the States- man's Year-booh.) .
Population.
The area of the empire is estimated at 291,018 Brazilian square leagues, or 4,89.1,394 English square miles, with a population of about 11,780,000, so that there are, on the average, but two in- dividuals to each square mile. Brazil, in its extent of territory, is second only to the empires of China and Russia. The subjoined table gives the area and population, free and slave, of each of the twenty provinces of the empire, according to official estimates, given in the absence of a census : —
Population
Provinces
Area in square leagues
Free
Slave
Amazonas . . . •
• 66,300
95,000
5,000
Para
40,000
325,000
25,000
Maranhao .
12.000
450,000
50,000
Piauhy . . •
10,500
230.000
2n,000
Ceara .
3.627
520,000
30,000
Eio Grande do Norte
2,000
235,000
5,000
Parahyba .
3,500
260,000
40,000
Pernambuco .
5,287
970,000
250,000
Alagoas
2,356
250,000
50,000
Sergipe .
1,360
285,000
35,000
Bahia .
14,836
1,170,000
280,000
Espirito Santo ....
1,361
90,000
10.000
Bio de Janeiro
2,400
1,150,000
250,000
Municipio Neutro (capital of the
empire) .
32
400,000
50,000
S. Paulo
10.300
825,0 ( )0
75,000
Parana .
8,000
110.000
io,ooo
St a. Catharina
2,580
190.000
10,000
S. Pedro do Sul
8,204
550.000
30,000
Minas . . . . .
20,000
1,440,000
160,000
Goyax .
26,000
240.000
10,000
Matto Grosso ....
50,175
1)5,000
5,000
291,018
9,880.000
1,400,000
Indians . Grand total .
500,000
11,780,000
