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The stone reef at Venda Grande, Pernamhuco. — 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. 



■VCNDA GRANDE:. 



VEIMOA GRANDE STONE REEF 

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C.E. OILMAN. 



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north of the Yenda 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 



