São Paulo, a manufacturing town of Brazil (minerals, coffee); capital of a productive and healthy State (1,387) of the same name, situated on a plain 310 m. W. by S. from Rio de Janeiro; has pretty suburbs, electric light, &c.; is the chief centre of the Brazilian coffee trade, and has manufactories of cotton, tobacco, spirits, &c.; is the seat of a law-school.
Population (circa 1900) given as 35,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
São Francisco * Saône