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twenty-live cents the alquier, of sixty-four pounds ; stone lime is double 

 in price. 



Salt is worth one dollar and twenty-five cents the panero, of one hun- 

 dred and eight pounds. 



Rains at Barra commence in September ; the force of the rain is in 

 February and March, but there is scarcely ever a continuous rain of 

 twenty-four hours — one day rainy and one day clear. 



The Vigario Geral, an intelligent priest, named Joaquin Gonzales de 

 Azevedo, told me that there was a sharp shock of an earthquake in this 

 country in the year 1816. The ground opened at "Serpa," a village 

 below Barra, to the depth of a covado, (three-fourths of a yard.) 



