TOPOGEAPHY -BAHIA. 



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by Diogo Alvares, a trader known to the surrounding natives by the name of 

 Caramuru. But no regular colony was founded till 1549, when Thome de Souza, 

 governor of the captainries, took up his residence on Salvador hill. Bahia con- 



Fig. 69.— Bahia. 

 Scale 1 : 90,000. 



38°55- 



West oF breenvvich 



38'50- 



Depths. 



to 16 

 Feet. 



Ifi to 3-2 



Feet. 



3 to 64 



Feet. 



2,200 Yards. 



64 Feet 

 and upwards. 



tinned to be the seat of the colonial administration till 1763, and long remained 

 without a rival for population and commercial importance. In 1585 about half 

 of all the 25,000 whites settled in Brazil were stated to be residents of Bahia. 



At that time the blacks were much more numerous in Pernambuco ; but Bahia 



