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selves in potteries, and others in forming plantations of the cotton tree. The 

 soil and climate are adapted for oranges and water-melons, which prosper 

 abundantly. 



In the country of the missions is to be remarked the following places. 



Candellaria, which took the name from its magnificent church, as did almost 

 all the redufdes of the pretended Guaranitic kingdom, or the missions of the 

 Paranna, of which it was always considered the capital, in consequence of its 

 superior size and population. It is situate upon the left bank of the river 

 Paranna, where it inclines to the west, near the mouth of a small river. 



Corpus, also on the left margin of the same river, is fifteen leagues to the 

 north of Candellaria, and is the most northern of the missions, situated upon 

 the Paranna, and one of the handsomest in the province. 



Between the two preceding are situated those of St. Gosme, St. Anna, 

 St.Gosme Velho, Nosso Senhora do Loreto, and St. Igna^io Menor,(the smaller.) 

 This last is three leagues above the preceding one, and four below Corpus. 



The Padre Xarque, says the redugdes of Nosso Senhora do Loreto and 

 St, Igna^io Menor, were founded for the establishments of the twelve thousand 

 Indians, which the Jesuits conducted from the Upper Paranna, when the 

 Paulistas invaded the country. 



Itu, upon the same margin of the Paranna, is fifteen leagues to the west of 

 Candellaria. 



Assump^ao is fifteen leagues, with little variation, to the south-west of Corpus, 

 near the mouth of a small river that loses itself in the Uruguay. 



Conceii^ao is situated sixteen leagues to the south of the preceding one, and 

 little more than three leagues distant from the river Uruguay. 



St, Thomas is fifteen leagues distant, in a southern direction, from Con- 

 cei^ao. 



St. Maria Maior is a few leagues to the north of Concei^ao, also upon the 

 margin of the Uruguay. 



Apostolos is little more than six leagues to the west of Concei<^ao, upon the 

 road which leads towards Itu ; and twenty miles further in the same direction 

 upon this road St. Carlos is situated. 



St. Francisco Xavier is a few leagues to the north of St, Maria, and to the 

 east of Candellaria. In this interval Martyres is situated. 



Itapuan is on the right bank of the Paranna, to the north of Candellaria. 

 Trinidade is eight leagues to the north of Itapuan. St. Igna<^io Guassu (the 



