In this district is the parish of St. Joze de Leonissa, upon the Parahiba, in front of the embouchure of the river Pomba, was created a parish in 1812, and is a _povoacāo_, abounding with fish and all the necessaries of life. Its inhabitants are yet almost all Indians. Between the rivers Pomba and Parahiba, about six miles distant from the angle of their confluence, the parish of St. Antonio de Padua was erected, in 1812, in a district well adapted to the culture of various branches of agriculture. The dwellers of the northern margin of the Parahiba are diocesans of Rio de Janeiro. CHAP. V. PROVINCE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL. _Colonization--Boundaries--Climate--Aspect and Productions-- Contests between Spaniards and Portuguese--Divisionary Line between these two Powers--Opposition by the Indians of the Seven Missions--Their Defeat--Revived Contests between Spaniards and Portuguese--Mountains--Rivers--Lakes--Capes and Ports--Islands--Mineralogy--Phytology--Zoology--Large Fazendas for breeding Cattle--Mode of Management--Sheep-Flocks--Use of the Laço and Balls--Towns, Nature of Exports, Villages, &c. including those of the District of Monte Video._ This province, which includes the major part of the territory to the south of the capitania of St. Amaro, either had no donatories when John III. divided the coast, or from some other cause it was not colonized. Neither was its colonization accomplished by Viscount D’Asseca, nor his brother, John Correa de Sa, at the period of the great distributions of land which Peter II. granted to them in the territory denominated St. Gabriel, adjacent to the river Plate. The names by which this capitania was sometimes, although seldom, designated, of D’El Rey and St. Pedro, are supposed to have been given when it was first annexed to the crown lands. About the end of the sixteenth or the beginning of the seventeenth century, some Vincentistas removed their establishments to the vicinity of lake Dos Patos, and their descendants extended themselves to the south and west, as the Indians gradually relinquished the country.