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ted in the territory drained by the great Amazon river of North 
Brazil. 
The reported occurrences of petroleum at Porto Bello, Enseada 
do Brito, and other points along the coast of Santa Catharina, are 
without foundation, since the rocks are granitc at all of these localities, 
while a specimen of petroleum collected from the region south of 
Marahi, in the state of Bahia, where petroleum is reported to exist on 
the water, proved to he the refined article, and was doubtless derived 
from one of Devoe’s packages. 
