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CONTENTS. 



CHAP. IV. 



PROVINCE OF RIO DE JANEIRO— COW^mweJ. 



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Population of the capital— negroes — nocturnal clamour of reptiles— vampire bat — state 

 of literature — -jealousy — dead bodies — military — bank — revenue — imposts — diamonds 

 — visit to Campinha — tenure of lands — proof of fertility — iSwiss emigrants — visit to 

 the cascades of Tejuca — commerce— judicial procedure — pauta and convention — neio 

 exchange— foundation of English church — towns, villages, and productions of the 

 comarca of Rio de Janeiro — boundaries, productions, rivers, lakes, and povoa^oes of 

 the comarca of Cape Frio — boundaries, Indians, rivers, lakes, towns, and sugar- 

 works of the comarca of Goytacazes — boundaries, Coroado Indians, and povoafoes 

 of the comarca of Canta Gallo 72 



CHAP. V. 



PROVINCE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL. 

 Colonization — boundaries — climate — aspect and productions — contests betiveen Spaniards 

 and Portuguese — divisionary line between these two powers — opposition by the Indians 

 of the seven missions — their defeat- — revived contests between Spaniards and Por- 

 tuguese — mountains — rivers — lakes — capes and ports — islands — mineralogy — phy to- 

 logy — zoology — large fazendas for breeding cattle — mode of management — sheep-flocks 

 — use of the laco and balls — towns, nature of exports, villages, Sfc. including those of 

 the district of Monte Video 110 



CHAP. VI. 



PROVINCE OF PARANNA. 

 Boundaries — climate — productions — Matte the most lucrative— first discoverers — pro- 

 ceedings of the Spanish Jesuits — Guarani Indians formed into redufoes, or villages — 

 nature of those missions — expulsion of the Jesuits — delivery of the missions to other 

 ecclesiastics — their decay — mountains — mineralogy — rivers and lakes— phytology — 

 zoology— -towns, parishes, hic— remaining establishments of the Jesuitical missions. . . . 134 



' ' " ' CHAP. VII. 



PROVINCE OF URUGUAY. 

 Foundation of aldeias, called missions, by the Spanish Jesuits for the Tappe Indians 

 -flourish till the expidsion of that sect — subsequent decay — ivar betiveen the Spaniards 

 and Portuguese— conquest of the seven missions by the latter power in 1801 — governor 

 sent — boundaries — mountains —rivers— phy tology — zoology — names and population of 

 the seven missions at their conquest , , 145 



