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Bray (Small English parish near)

a small English parish, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, of which Simon Aleyn was vicar from 1540 to 1588, during the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth. He kept his vicarage by changing his faith according to that of the State for the time being, becoming a Protestant with a BRAZIL Area and Population. The total area of Brazil is 3,280,900 square miles, exceeding by 250,000 square miles the Alaska. There are 20 states, one terriarea of the United States, excluding the census gave Brazil a population of 17,371,069. The estimated population in tory and one federal district. In 1900 1917 about 600,000 Indians in the Amazon rewas 27,473,579. This includes gion. The largest cities are: Rio de Janeiro, 975,818; São Paulo, 450,000; Bahia, 348,130; Belem, 275,167, and Pernambuco, 216,484. The number of immigrants in 1918 was 20,501. Exceptional advantages are offered by the government to immigrants in order to develop the potential wealth of the country.

Topography. Its seaboard, about 4,- 500 miles long, beginning about 200 miles to the N. of the mouth of the Amazon, reaches to within the same distance of the mouth of the Plata and projects into the Atlantic fully 1,000 miles to the E. of the direct line between its two extremes. Among the chief physical features are the enormous valleys of the Amazon, the São Francisco, and the Plata. Brazil has practically no mountain ranges.

The so-called ranges of Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueira are merely parallel steps leading from the seaboard to the interior pl plateau, which occupies nearly one-half of the area of the country S. of the Amazon and E. of the Plata. The highest point in the country is the Itatiaia peak, in the Mantiqueira system, 8,900 feet. There are no large interior lakes. The Lagoa dos Patos and Lagoa Mirim, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, lie along the coast and measure respectively over 200 and 150 miles in length and 80 and 40 miles in seagoing steamers. The chief waterbreadth. They are navigable by small ways are the mighty AMAZON (q. v.) with its numerous tributaries, the São