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The Ather-ton Tableland in the north, Buckland's Tableland in the center, and the Main Range in the south are interesting examples of the region. The northwestern uplands embrace the comparatively high country northwest of Cloncurry. The western plains cover a large proportion of the state, forming huge areas of rolling country, interspersed with flat-topped hills and tablelands.

SAO PAULO, souNm pou'loo, state, Brazil, icated in the south-central part of the country id its most economically productive region, ac-xmting for almost 40 percent of the Brazilian ross national product. The state's orientation generally toward the interior since most of le rivers, affluents of the Parana and Grande, >w in that direction and most of the railroads id highways diverge from the inland capital, io Paulo. The land surface of the state rises >ruptly from the narrow Atlantic coastal plain, i which its chief port of Santos is situated, up the 2,900-foot-high crest of the Serra do Mar carpment within a few dozen miles of the ast. The land beyond the crest slopes down-ird toward the northwest, with the result that e southeastern third of the state is between )00 and 3,000 feet high, and the northwestern 'o thirds runs from 500 to 2,000 feet.

The practice of cattle raising had crossed the Alleghenies into Ohio and Kentucky by 1800 and was well established in Illinois and Missouri by 1860. In the early 19th century there was an active importation of cattle from Mexico into the United States, and by 1870 there were cattle producers throughout the country. The Great Plains became well known as cow country soon after 1880. The "longhorn" cattle imported by Spanish settlers went northwest from the South, and the British breeds spread westward from the East.