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PROVINCE OF ST. PAULO. 



north-west of St. Paulo, and the same distance to the east-north-east of Hitu. 

 It has a good church of Our Lady of Desterro, an hospicio of Benedictines, 

 and a bridge over the river, which is stocked, amongst other fish, with those 

 called jundias, from which it derived the name. Its inhabitants raise cattle, 

 mules, horses, and large quantities of the sugar cane, and have for the ex- 

 traction of its juice various engenhos, or works; also abundance of legumes and 

 Indian corn, with which they furnish the caravans passing from Goyaz. 



Tibaya, or Atibaya, situated near the river of the same name, has a church 

 called St. Joam, is yet small, and is thirty-five miles north-north-east of St. 

 Paulo, an equal distance east of Jundiahi, and as far west of St. Joze. The 

 inhabitants raise feijao, Indian com, wheat, and hogs. 



Bragan^a, which is ten miles to the north-east of Tibaya, is yet inconsiderable^ 

 but the inhabitants are said to live in abundance, raise pigs in large quantities, 

 wheat, Indian corn, and legumes. 



Mugi-Mirim, situated on the road of Goyaz, upon the river of the same name, 

 which a little below unites itself with the Mugi-Guassu, is in a state of medio- 

 crity, and well supplied with the necessaries of life, particularly fish and meat. It 

 has engenhos of sugar, farms of cattle, and only one church, dedicated to St. 

 Joze. Upon the northern bank of the Mugi-Guassu, where this river traverses 

 the road to the town of Mugi-Mirim, is the arraial and parish which takes its 

 name, with a church of the Lady of Concei^ao. Its inhabitants are farmers of 

 mandioca, feijao, and Indian corn, and breeders of cattle and hogs. The 

 parish of Franca is the most northern of the province ; the inhabitants extend 

 themselves to the margin of the Grande, breed cattle, and cultivate those 

 necessaries which the territory best affords. The church is dedicated to Nossa 

 Senhora da Concei^ao. 



Sorocaba is situated where the river of its name traverses the royal road of 

 Curytiba to the capital, from which it is distant sixty miles to the west. It is a 

 flourishing and considerable town, ornamented with a church of the Lady of 

 Ponte, a recolhimento of women, an hospicio of Bentos, and a hermitage of St. 

 Antonio. Its actual population is composed of seventeen hundred and seventy- 

 seven families, of which two-thirds are whites ; they breed cattle and horses, 

 and cultivate cotton, sugar, and Indian corn, with the most common necessaries 

 of the country, but their principal profits arise from trafficking in cattle, which 

 come from the southern districts. In its environs there are calcareous stone and 

 good flint stone. The royal fabric of Hipannema, distant about seven miles, 

 and established near a small stream of the same name, for the reception of tjie 



