In June, 1815, the comarca of Sabara was divided into two, the St. Francisco serving as a medium limit to them. The northern, western, and southern limits of the new comarca are the same which till then constituted the circuit of the district of Paracatu, the head and only town of the newly created comarca, which took its name. At the same time was abolished the office of the Juiz de Fora, which had existed since it was created a town in 1798, the new ouvidor becoming the intendant of gold. By another law of the 4th of April, 1816, the julgados of Desemboque and Araxa were separated from the ouvidoria or district of Goyaz, and annexed to the ouvidoria of Paracatu. _Comarca of_ SERRO FRIO. The comarca of Serro Frio takes its name from a mountain, which of all others is the most celebrated for the riches which it contains. It is limited on the north by the province of Bahia, which also with that of Porto Seguro confines it on the east; on the south by the comarca of Villa Rica; and on the west by that of Sabara. It comprises nearly three hundred miles from north to south, and one hundred and eighty from east to west. The country is for the greater part very mountainous, and watered by numerous rivers, with extensive charnecas, or sterile lands, in the northern part, which only serve for the breeding of cattle. There are, however, generally portions of land, more or less considerable, appropriated to the culture of cotton, Indian corn, rice, mandioca, legumes, tobacco, some rye, and sugar. It is the richest in precious stones; and has mines of all the metals. MOUNTAINS.--There is a grand cordillera, (a continuation of the Mantiqueira,) which does not always retain the same name, altitude, or direction, breaking in many parts, and stretching out various arms at divers points, traversing the comarca almost north and south. In the eastern part there is the serra of Esmeraldas; the serra Branca, which separates the comarca from that of Sabara for a considerable space, and afterwards inclines to the north-east to the limit of the province; the serra of Gram Mogol; that of Peixe Brabo; of Gurutuba, of Conceiçao, and of Almas. RIVERS.--The principal are the Jequitinhonha, the Verde, the Pardo, the Mucury, the Arassuahy, the Sassuhy, the Corrente, and the St. Antonio.