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few ; as the produce (from not adopting a new mode) of the mines affords them 

 no encouragement. Cattle are bred. Oranges and citrons are excellent. 



Near seven miles to the north of Natividade is the small and agreeably 

 situated arraial of Chapada, with a chapel of St. Anna. The people who inhabit 

 it cultivate the same productions as those of the former place, and are miners. 



Fifty miles to the north-north-west of the preceding, and twenty from the 

 Tucantines, at the angle of the confluence of the small river Sucuriu and the 

 Matan^a, is the pleasant arraial of Carmo. It was founded in 1 74 1 , in the 

 proximity of a serra, ornamented with a mother church dedicated to St. Manuel, 

 and a chapel of the Lady of Rozario. The houses are built of adobe, a sort of 

 brick dried in the sun. Its inhabitants drink the waters of the Sucuriu, which 

 are excellent. They are miners and agriculturists, and cultivate Indian 

 corn, tobacco, cotton, sugar, mandioca, and legumes, with various hortulans 

 and fruits. 



Seventy miles to the east of Natividade is the arraial of Almas, a httle dis- 

 tance from the river Manuel Alvez and near the road of Duro. Its inhabitants 

 cultivate the necessaries of life and cotton. 



Forty miles to the east of the preceding, is the aldeia of Duro, upon the 

 boundary of the province, with a register for preventing the embezzlement of 

 gold. The major part of its dwellers are Christianized Indians, poor and con- 

 tent with their condition, cultivating and collecting only what is absolutely 

 necessary to preserve life. 



A few leagues to the north of the aldeia of Duro is that of Formiga, also 

 peopled with Christianized Indians, who are equally indolent, are hunters, and 

 more contented with gathering fruits from the wild trees, than planting others of 

 greater utility. 



Between the mouth of the northern river Manuel Alvez and the first peninsula, 

 is the new arraial of St. Pedro d' Alcantara, upon the margin of the Tucantines. 



District o/'Parannan. 

 This district derives its name from the river which traverses it diagonally. It 

 is bounded on the north by the comarca of Tucantines, on the west by that of 

 Goyaz, on the south by the Rio das Velhas, and on the east by the limits of 

 the province. It is watered by a great number of rivers, interspersed with 

 mountains, and better peopled than the others, although still infested by the 

 barbarians, who advance up the principal rivers. In some districts there are 



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