A history of the Brazil : $b comprising its geography, commerce, colonization, aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. &c.Henderson, James
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A history of the Brazil : $b comprising its geography, commerce, colonization, aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. &c.
Henderson, James
Brazil; Brazil -- History -- To 1822
Joam and Our Lady of Apezentacâo, are
put on board the bay boats. About a league to the north of it is the
Sarapuhi, which originates in the Serra Cachoeira. Its banks are
serpentine, and it is only navigable for about a league. The dwellers
in the parishes of St. Antonio and Jacutinga export their productions
by it. The Iguassu, a mile further to the north-east, has its source
in the Serra Tinguá; is navigable for four leagues; brings with it to
the bay the waters of the Iguare, which issues from one of the lakes,
and affords navigation for a mile to the port bearing its name. Also
the Maraby, flowing from the Serra Boa-Vista, and navigable to the
port of Couto, three leagues above its mouth. It also receives the Dos
Ramos, navigable for a space of eight miles, to the skirts of the Serra
Mantiqueira, in which it originates. The river Inhumirim enters the
bay about half a league further, and is navigable for three leagues:
one of its confluents, the Jaguamirim, flows from the morasses, and
affords navigation for six miles; another, the Saracuruna, descends
from the serra of its name, and is navigable only for a league; also
the Figueyra, which comes from Serra Frade. Boats go up very near to
its origin, where it has the name of Cayoába. By the Inhumirim, (the
source of which is little distant from the Piabanha,) the miners,
amounting to no great number, comparatively, descend by boats to the
capital, and return in the same way, with manufactured articles, up its
channel to the port of Estrella, where they leave the mules to recruit
for the return journey; but the major part of these people, as well as
others, proceed the whole way with the mules. The port of Estrella is
a flourishing place, (being on the main way to the mines,) with some
little commerce, and has a chapel of Our Lady, situated in the angle of
the confluence of the aforesaid Saracuruna, four miles from the bay.
From the Inhumirim there is a channel to the river Pilar, the last
confluent of the Iguassu. Little more than two leagues to the
east-north-east of the Inhumirim, and in front of the small island of
Guayanna, the Suruhy, issuing from the Organ Mountains, discharges
itself into the bay, and, like the others, admits of the navigation of
boats up its channel for about seven miles. It receives the Goya, which
comes from one of the morasses. All the productions of the adjacent
country are excellent; and there is, perhaps, no soil better adapted
for banana groves, which are cultivated here with great care. Half a
league further is the mouth of the Iriry, which originates in marshy
ground, and is only navigable for two miles.
About two miles to the east of the Iriry, is the emboucheur of the
Magéassú, which descends from the Organ Mountains, bathes the town of
the same name, and affords navigation for ten miles. The Guapimirim,
is about two miles from the Magé. Its course is about six leagues, and
originates in the same mountains.
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