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taipa. Its inhabitants cultivate much tobacco, and breed hogs and large cattle. 

 Cotton cloths and sugar are the principal branches of commerce. About 

 two miles distant from it is the famous and much visited chapel of the Lady of 

 Apparecida. 



Lorena, a middling town, upon the right margin of the Parahiba, ten miles 

 east of Guaratingueta and seven above the mouths of the Imbauhi, which flows 

 from the Mantiqueira mountains, and of the Bocaina, which comes from the 

 south, is situated at the passage to Minas Geraes denominated Porto do Meyra, 

 and has a church called Piedade : Guaipicure was its primitive name. 



In the district of Lorena, where legumes and rice grow abundantly, and 

 large quantities of hogs and poultry are bred, the parish of St. Anna das Areas 

 is situated. It has been recently dismembered of that portion of territory now 

 constituting the parish of Bannanal. 



A league below Lorena there is another passage to the province of Minas 

 Geraes, called Porto da Cachoeira. 



Cunha, formerly Facao, is yet an inconsiderable town ; but, from its advan- 

 tageous situation upon a serra in the vicinity of the Jacuhy, and about twenty- 

 five miles north of Parati, is susceptible of much improvement. It has a 

 church, of which the Lady of Concei^ao is the patroness. The climate is 

 salubrious, and the nights of June and July are fresh, and even the natives 

 feel them cold. Hitherto the flowers and fruit trees of Europe have prospered 

 better here than in any other situation of the torrid zone. In its environs there 

 are extensive groves of majestic pines, and the inhabitants raise the common 

 productions of the country, abundance of Indian corn, and large quantities 

 of poultry and pigs. An indifferent road or track connects this town with 

 Parati, and would, if made equally easy and secure with those of the arraial of 

 Cubatao, for the transport of its productions to St. Paulo and Santos, become 

 a flourishing district. 



Parahitinga, a medium town, and well situated upon the left bank of the 

 river which affords it the name, is seven miles above the embouchure of the 

 Parahibuna and forty north of the town of Ubatuba. St. Luiz is the patron of 

 its church, which, with an extensive bridge over the river that bathes it, are 

 the only objects worthy the observation of the traveller. The inhabitants 

 breed a great number of hogs, which constitute the principal branch of their 

 commerce. 



Jundiahi is a middling and flourishing town, one mile distant from the left 

 bank of the river from which its name is borrowed, thirty-five miles to the north- 



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