The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

TOPOGEAPHT—QUELUZ. 167
from tlie old African tongues, and some of their families have lateral branclies
in Dahomey, with whom friendly relations are still maintained.
The Mineiros, or Geralistas, as the inhabitants of Minas Geraes are called,
descend partly from pure or mixed Paulistas, partly from Portuguese immigrants.
Besides these, all the nations of West Europe are represented in Bahia and the
other coast towns. But systematic immigration dates only from the middle of the
nineteenth century. The first attempts to settle the ilucurj' and Doce valleys
with thousands of German, Dutch, Swiss, and Alsatian colonists ended in disaster.
No preparations had been made to receive the strangers, most of whom perished of
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typhus or famine, and the Mucury stations were long known by the name of
Curnijicina, the " Shambles."
Since then immigration has been carried on more successfully, and numerous
settlements, chiefly of Italians, who are better suited for the climate, have been
founded along the routes leading from the coast to the uplands. Thanks to them,
the hitherto neglected State of Espiiito Santo is being rapidly peopled.
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Towns of Mixas Geraes.
Quelus, the town in the Upper S. Francisco basin which lies nearest to Rio de
Janeiro, stands some 3,000 feet above the sea near the sources of the Paraopeba.
Since its foundation in the middle of the eighteenth century, Queluz has passed
through the same vicissitudes as the other settlements of the district. First en-
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