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PROVINCE OF ST. PAULO. 



The river Tiete, formerly Anhemby, a name given to it by an Indian tribe, 

 has its source seventy miles to the east of the city of St. Paulo, not far from 

 which it passes ; about four miles below it receives, on the left margin, the 

 Pinheiros, which flows from the south-east with twenty miles of course. After 

 forty-five miles more it receives, on the right, the Jundiahy, which flows by 

 the town of its name. Near this confluence, the Tiete forms a large cataract, 

 which impedes the further advance of fish ; and fifty miles further the Capibary 

 joins it, after having traversed an extensive wood of majestic trees. 



Eight miles lower the Sorocaba discharges on the left margin. Originating 

 in the serra of Cubatam, to the west of St. Vincente, it runs by the town of 

 the same name. 



Fifty miles beyond the preceding river, the Pirassicaba, which is considerable, 

 enters it on the right, and is formed by the Tybaia and Jaguary, the heads of 

 which are situated to the north-east of St. Paulo, and traverse a vast wood of 

 immense trees, from the trunks of which, as well as those that grow upon the 

 borders of the aforesaid Capibary, are constructed canoes of eighty palms in 

 length, nearly eight in width, and five in height, which serve to navigate to 

 Cuiaba, and carry four hundred arrobas of cargo, besides the necessary main- 

 tenance for eight men, and occasionally passengers. 



A little below this confluence, where the volume of water is almost doubled, 

 the Lancoes joins it on the left; and, after four or five days of voyage, the 

 embouchure of the Jacare-Papira is met with on the right; and, somewhat 

 lower, that of the Pipira, on the same side, almost as voluminous as the one 

 which receives it. This river is formed by the waters of the Mugy, which 

 originates in the skirt of the Mantiqueira and of the Jaguary-Mirim, which 

 issues from Minas Geraes, both crossing the road from St. Paulo to Goyaz, 

 thirty miles distant one from the other. They flow westward for a considerable 

 space, uniting in the centre of a large wood, through which they continue in 

 one important current, gathering various streams, that render it so considerable 

 at the confluence mentioned. 



A few leagues below the passage to Goyaz there is a fall in the Mugy, which 

 arrests the further progress of fish, and, in consequence, at a certain period 

 annually a numerous band of fishermen assemble here, with cargas (horse 

 loads) of salt, which enables them to furnish the more distant places, from the 

 abundant draughts with which they are here supplied. 



Navigators compute two hundred and fifty miles from Port Feliz to the mouth 



