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PROVINCE OF ST. CATHARINi^. 



On the western side of the Laguna, and near its northern extremity, the river 

 Una discharges itself, and affords navigation to canoes for some leagues, as far 

 as the rock of St. Joam. An arm of this river extends a league and a half to 

 the north, is deep, and terminates in a morass. 



In front of the embouchure of the Laguna is the small island of Lobos. Four 

 leagues to the north is the point and port of the Embituba, and two farther is 

 the mouth of the river Piraquera, which is the outlet of the lake of the same 

 name, otherwise Encantada, four miles long and one wide. 



Continuing onward, the river Embahu is met with, which at its mouth is only 

 eight fathoms wide, but it gradually increases to more than eighty fathoms ; 

 canoes can proceed up during a day's voyage. 



Two miles farther to the north is the point of Pinheira, which is followed by the 

 gulf of the same name, being the southern entrance to the channel of the island 

 of St. Catharina ; its southern extremity is a league to the north of the said point. 



Near six miles to the north of Point Pinheira, the Massambu disembogues, 

 being thirty fathoms wide, and of considerable depth, but of short extent : Rio 

 Dom Rodrigo was its first designation. After it follows a small bay, called 

 Brito, and a little farther is the entrance of the river Cubatao, sixty fathoms 

 wide, up which larger canoes proceed during two days' voyage. In the 

 proximity of this river there are various fountains of hot water, having different 

 degrees of heat : the most distant one, situated five leagues up the river, 

 possesses one hundred and two degrees. 



After passing various small rivers, the river Maruhy is met with, as large as 

 the preceding one, and navigable to the place denominated Guarda. Near 

 this river is the bay of St. Joze. A little to the north is a straight, which divides 

 the channel into two almost equal parts ; and a little farther is the entrance of 

 the river Biguassu, fifty fathoms in width, and up which canoes proceed for 

 many leagues. The first discoverers called it the river of Patos, in consequence 

 of its constituting a limit between the Indians of that name, who extended 

 themselves as far as the St. Pedro, and the Carijos to the north as far as 

 Cannanea. 



The large bay of St. Miguel follows ; afterwards, the point of Armacao ; 

 and, farther on, that of Ganchos, which lies east and west of the extremity of 

 the island of St. Catharina, and is to the southward of the spacious bay 

 of Tejucas, at the farther end of which the river of the same name dis- 

 charges itself, being fifty fathoms wide, and affording two days' navigation. 

 The surrounding country of the bay of Tejucas is a morass or marshy 



