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PROVINCE OF PARANNA. 



Justice is daily administered by two alcaldes, or magistrates, assisted by two 

 assessores, or lawyers. The four are elected annually by a judicial cabildo, 

 composed of twenty-four governors for perpetuity, except in the event of delin- 

 quency ; four of whom are principals, namely the royal ensign, the deacon, an 

 officer called the aguazil maior, and the provincial alcalde. The others are 

 ordinaries, each with his inspection, presided by an assessor-general, called tenente 

 assessor, (lieutenant assessor.) There is an advocate named by the aiidiencia, or 

 audience-court of the province, for the purpose of defending gratis the causes of 

 the poor, or those who do not possess a patrimony of a certain value, and also 

 of prisoners, although they may be rich. 



Ten leagues to the north of Correntes is the parish of Nehembu^u, on the 

 margin of the Paraguay, where they build boats and different sorts of vessels. 

 Thirty leagues to the south of Correntes is situated the village and parish of 

 St. Luzia, also upon the margin of the Paraguay ; in its district there is gesso, a 

 species of plaster, which forms a branch of exportation. In this interval are 

 the parishes of Algarrobas, Esquina, and Goya, abounding sufficiently in meat 

 and fish. 



Bagada de St. Fe, and commonly called Paranna, is a small village situated 

 upon the Paraguay, in front of St. F§, in view of an island of considerable 

 extent. From hence is exported a good deal of limestone. 



Coruguaty is a middling town, and celebrated for the large quantity of matte 

 collected in its district, of which it is the deposit. It is situated about thirty 

 leagues to the north-east of Assumption, and three miles distant from the left 

 margin of the river from which it borrows the name. 



Five leagues to the north of it is the prezidio or garrison of St. Miguel, 

 established in order to obstruct the invasions of the Guaycuru Indians. 



Villa Rica, where also is accumulated large quantities of matte, lying 

 twenty leagues to the south-east of Assumption, is yet small. There is 

 another place of the same name on the borders of the Paraguay, to the north 

 of the capital. 



Arroio da China is a middling town, situated on the banks of the Uruguay, 

 more than thirty leagues above its embouchure. Its inhabitants, mainly white 

 people, breed cattle and cultivate corn and fruit. 



Itaty is a small town, but regular, and well situated upon the southern 

 bank of the Paranna, about thirty leagues above Correntes. Its inhabit- 

 ants consist of Indians and some white people; a portion occupy them- 



