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The stone reef at Venda Grande, Pernambuco. — Sixteen kilometres 
south of the Pernambuco lighthouse, at a small village known as Venda 
Grande, is a small but interesting stone reef. This reef connects with 
and is buried by beach sands at its southern end, four hundred metres 
ATLANTIC OCEAN. 
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north of the Venda Grande. Toward the north it draws gradually away 
from the beach, so that its northern end is two hundred metres off the 
beach. 
It has a total length of 1.6 kilometres, including the fragments on the 
beach. Unlike most reefs of the kind it ends abruptly : there are no 
