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PROVINCE OF GOYAZ. 



same law, the town of St, Joam das Duas Barras, ordered to be founded by a 

 decree in 1809, was to become subject to this town. 



The major part of the cattle bred in this district are consumed in the recon- 

 cave of Bahia, and in the comarca of the Ilheos. 



District of Rio das Velhas. 



This district, to which one of the rivers that traverse it lends the name, is 

 bounded on the north by the district of Parannan, on the south by the province 

 of St. Paulo, on the east by that of Minas Geraes, and on the west by the 

 districts of Goyaz and Cayaponia. It is three hundred and fifty miles from 

 north to south, and one hundred and seventy of medium width. 



Besides the river which affords it the name, and those which serve for its 

 western and southern limits, it contains numerous others. Upon the road of 

 Meia Ponte to St. Paulo, amongst other small ones, are the Capivary, which is 

 forded with difficulty even in dry weather, the Pyracanjuba, the Peixe, (both 

 with bridges,) all three discharging themselves into the Corumba by the right 

 bank; the Braco do Verissimo ; the Verissimo, which receives the former; the 

 Parannahiba ; and the small stream of Furnas, that flows through a plain, 

 and on a sudden is precipitated twenty fathoms into a profound abyss. A 

 variety of birds build their nests in the cavities of the rock, and rear their 

 young, in sight, and amidst the murmuring sounds of this fine cataract. The 

 Furnas discharges itself soon afterwards into the Rio das Velhas. The two 

 Uberavas, verdadeiro, (the real one,) which runs into the preceding, and the 

 falso, (or false,) that enters the Rio Grande. The small river Inferno which 

 issues from the serra of Canastra, and enters the Rio das Velhas by the left; 

 the river Quebra Anzoes, that originates on the confines of Minas Geraes, 

 and also unites itself with the Rio das Velhas by the right margin ; but none 

 of them reach the road, near which the river Prata and the Tijuco rise, and, 

 after uniting, enter the river Parannahiba a considerable distance below the 

 confluence of the Rio das Velhas. 



On the road of Paracatu is met with (besides the afore-mentioned Corumba) 

 the river Areas, the Montes Claros, the Pont' Alta, (all with bridges,) and the 

 St. Bartholomew. The whole are stored with a diversity of fish, and flow 

 southward. 



In the most northern part of the district is the river Almas, the Peixe, which 

 unites with the first by the right, and the Patos, that flows along and to the 

 east of the serra Negra, and afterwards joins the Maranham a few leagues 



