The mountains continue on the western banks under different names; on the eastern bank the river receives the _Taquari_ by many estuaries, the largest of which is in 19° 15' south latitude, and 54° degrees west longitude. Five leagues lower, and on the same side, the _Embotetieu_ or _Mondego_, flows into the Paraguay, one league below the mouth of which two high capes front each other, and here, at the foot of the mountain, on the west, is _Fort Nueva Coimbra_, the last and southernmost Portuguese settlement on the Paraguay, which, after bounding the possessions of the two nations from the pyramid of Jaura, becomes wholly a Spanish river, after passing _Bahia Negra_, a large inlet eleven leagues south of Coimbra. Thence the river continues to south latitude 21°, where, on the west bank, on a hill named Miguel Josef, the Spaniards have a station with four pieces of cannon, named _Fort Bourbon_, and previous to reaching this fort, the little river _Guirino_ flows into it from the east. In south latitude 21° 22' the river forms two channels by passing an island, and the banks are here high on both sides, the interior being very mountainous. At this point the great inundations of the river which commenced at the mouth of the Jaura, and have received the name of _Lake Los Xarayes_ terminate. During the rainy season, the channel of the Paraguay is here confounded with those of its tributary streams, in such a manner that it is difficult to find. The banks of the river continue high; and in 22° 5' south latitude, it receives a large river from the west, and twenty leagues south of this, the _Corientes_ joins its streams. The _Xexuy_ flows into it from the east in 24° 11'; from thence the Paraguay runs southwards for thirty-two leagues to the city of Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay.