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Juiz de Fora, and a professor of Latin, The Jesuits had a college here, which 

 has, since their expulsion, been repaired at the cost of the treasury. Farinha, 

 rice, coffee, and other articles, with wheat, which is brought from Curytiba, 

 are its exports. 



Guaratuba, (the real name of which is Villa Nova de St. Luiz,) situated near a 

 morro, upon the right margin of the southern arm of the river Guaratuba, in front 

 of the island of Guarazes, and seven miles from the sea, is yet small, but stands 

 advantageously for becoming more considerable. It exports various necessaries 

 of life. 



Antonio enjoys an agreeable, and healthy situation, ten miles west of the 

 town of Paranagua, at the extremity of a bay, on a peninsula, and in front of 

 the embouchures of the Cachoeira and Nhundiaquara. It was created a town 

 in 1800. The mother church, deemed an embellishment, is denominated Our 

 Lady of Pilar. Its vicinity can boast of considerable plantations of mandioca, 

 the farinha of which root is exported, as well as timber and cords of imbe. 

 In its district is the aldeia of Morrete, near a river, up which canoes advance 

 to take in the productions cultivated within its boundaries, and those conveyed 

 hither from Curytiba upon the backs of mules. 



Cannanea, an inconsiderable town, and pleasantly situated upon a small 

 island, about ten miles within the bar of its name, and only separated from the 

 continent by a narrow strait, has a church dedicated to St. Joao Baptista. Its 

 inhabitants are agriculturists and fishermen; rice is the principal article ex- 

 ported. At the entrance of the bar of Cannanea, on the side of the continent, 

 there is a stone of European marble, with the royal arms of Portugal ; and, 

 although much defaced, is ascertained to have been erected there in the year 

 1503. 



Twenty miles south-west of Cannanea, is the aldeia of Ararapira, in former 

 times a villota of Christianized Indians, with its church dedicated to St. Joze 

 da Marinha, situated upon an arm of the lake or bay of Cannanea, which pro- 

 longs itself between the General Cordillera and another contiguous to the 

 ocean. 



Twenty-eight miles (or forty, following the winding of the lake) to the north- 

 east of the town of Cannanea, is the considerable town of Iguape, situated 

 pleasantly at the extremity of the lake, and a little removed from the right 

 margin of the river Assunguy, which is generally designated by the name of 

 the town. It formerly had a house of permutation, and has a celebrated church 



