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PROVINCE OF RIO DE JANEIRO. 



navigation for six miles ; another, the Saracuruna, descends from the serra of 

 its name, and is navigable only for a league ; also the Figueyra, which comes 

 from Serra Frade, Boats go up very near to its origin, where it has the name 

 of Cayoaba. By the Inhumirim, (the source of which is little distant from 

 the Piabanha,) the miners, amounting to no great number, comparatively, 

 descend by boats to the capital, and return in the same way, with manufactured 

 articles, up its channel to the port of Estrella, where they leave the mules to 

 recruit for the return journey; but the major part of thpse people, as well as 

 others, proceed the whole way with the mules. The port of Estrella is a 

 flourishing place, (being on the main way to the mines,) with some little com- 

 merce, and has a chapel of Our Lady, situated in the angle of the confluence 

 of the aforesaid Saracuruna, four miles from the bay. 



From the Inhumirim there is a channel to the river Pilar, the last confluent 

 of the Iguassu. Little more than two leagues to the east-north-east of the Inhu- 

 mirim, and in front of the small island of Guayanna, the Suruhy, issuing from 

 the Organ Mountains, discharges itself into the bay, and, like the others, 

 admits of the navigation of boats up its channel for about seven miles. It re- 

 ceives the Goya, which comes from one of the morasses. All the productions 

 of the adjacent country are excellent ; and there is, perhaps, no soil better 

 adapted for banana groves, which are cultivated here with great care. Half a 

 league further is the mouth of the Iriry, which originates in marshy ground, 

 and is only navigable for two miles. 



About two miles to the east of the Iriry, is the emboucheur of the Mag6- 

 assu, which descends from the Organ Mountains, bathes the town of the same 

 name, and affords navigation for ten miles. The Guapimirim, is about two 

 miles from the Mage. Its course is about six leagues, and originates in the 

 same mountains. 



About two miles from hence is the principal of two mouths by which the 

 Macacu enters the bay. It is one of its largest streams, and is navigable 

 for fifteen leagues. Alligators of a very large size inhabit its banks, and take 

 shelter amongst the high reeds which grow in the water. Its source is in the 

 Organ Mountains, near the rock called Canudos, and it is united on its right mar- 

 gin by the rivers Guapiassu, Cabucu, and Varge ; on its left by the Cacerebu and 

 the Aldeia. The Guapiassu, which is the most considerable, comes from the 

 same mountains as the Macacu ; and, a little before its incorporation with 

 that river, communicates with it by a channel called Rio dos Morros (River 

 of Rocks.) There is a quarry of pedra sahao, a peculiar stone, near its heads, 



