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PROVINCE OF ST. PAULO. 



Smacks enter by the bar of Cannanea ; that of Icapara, having the same depth, 

 is not navigated, in consequence of its dangerous windings. 



Fifteen miles farther along the coast is the large outlet of the considerable 

 river Iguape, formed by a great number of large streams, generally serpentine, 

 and watering a vast and mountainous country, having gold. This river is 

 navigable for many leagues ; and in the vicinity of the sea, describing large 

 windings, forms many peninsulas, some of the isthmuses of which have been 

 cut in order to shorten the navigation. It passes about two miles from the town 

 of Iguape. 



Thirty-five miles further are the two mouths of the river Una, up which 

 canoes proceed more than fifty miles, to a place called Prelado. 



Forty miles to the north-east is the entrance of the bay of Itanhaen, which is 

 handsome, and takes the name of a small river discharged at its extremity. 



The bay of Santos follows at a distance of thirty-five miles, to which the 

 island of St. Vincente, and that of St. Amaro, originally Guahibe, each being 

 fifteen or eighteen miles long, open three entrances. The southern is denomi- 

 nated the bar of St. Vincente, the central Barra Larga, (Wide Bar,) or the bar 

 of Santos, and the northern, Bertioga, by corruption Buriquioca, which signifies 

 a house or cavern of buriquis, a species of monkey. It is the only port of the 

 province capable of receiving armadas. Various small rivers, alone navigable 

 with the tide, flow hither, and are discharged amidst mangroves. 



Islands. — The two last islands are the principal ; are elevated, and abound 

 with water, timber, and good stone. 



The island of St. Amaro has scarcely any inhabitants, and is almost entirely 

 uncultivated, which, perhaps, is owing to its not having been granted at first in 

 small portions to agriculturists capable of cultivating it. 



About thirty miles to the east-north-east of St. Amaro, is the island of St. 

 Sebastian, fifteen miles long, and proportionably wide, also high, with some 

 inhabitants and roadsteads, being separated from the continent by the profound 

 channel of Toque-Toque, a league in vi^idth. 



Fifteen miles to the north-east from hence is the small island of Porcos, 

 which is of a triangular form, with good anchorage in its vicinity, and inhabited. 



In the same direction, and at an equal distance, the island of Couves is 

 situated, possessing good water, and commodious anchorage on the side next 

 the continent, from which it is distant three miles. 



The Queimadas, consisting of three small islands, are situated twelve miles 

 east of the entrance to the bay of Itanhaen. 



