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teen fountains of crystalline water, and a hospital. Its inhabitants, principally 

 miners and dealers, live in two parishes, called Our Lady of Pilar and 

 Concei^ao. This town is two hundred and thirty miles north-north-west of 

 Rio de Janeiro. 



There are in Villa Rica twenty-five judicial appointments. The smelting 

 house has sixteen official situations ; the office of Intendente, which affiarded 

 annually five thousand two hundred and fifty crusades, independently of per- 

 quisites, has been discontinued here as well as in all similar establishments in 

 the Brazil. In the treasury, besides the deputies already mentioned, there are 

 sixteen other situations, the most lucrative of which is the Escrivao Contador, 

 (the auditor of the treasury,) having three thousand crusades annually ; and the 

 smallest is that of Continuo, (a sergeant, or beadle,) not having more than one 

 hundred and fifty milreas (about thirty-seven pounds.) There is also a tribunal 

 entitled " Junta of the conquest and civilization of the Indians and navigation 

 of the river Doce," established in 1808. Its principal object is to promote 

 agriculture upon the margins of that river, which, however, advances very slowly. 



The inhabitants of Villa Rica, and of six parishes within its district, form two 

 regiments of auxiliary cavalry, fourteen companies of whites, seven of mulattoes, 

 and four of free blacks. 



Eight miles to the west of Villa Rica is the arraial and freguezia of St. 

 Bartholomew, famous for the large quantity of marmalade that is exported 

 from it. 



Ten miles to the north-west of Villa Rica is the freguezia or parish of Our 

 Lady of Nazareth da Cachoeira, where the governors have a house of recrea- 

 tion, occasionally passing some days there in the amusement of shooting deer 

 and partridges. 



Twenty miles to the south-east of Villa Rica is the considerable arraial of 

 Piranga, situated near the river of the same name, with a church of the Lady 

 of Conceicao, and a chapel of ilozario. The inhabitants cultivate the necessaries 

 of life, and a large quantity of tobacco, to which the soil is very favourable. 



In the vicinity of the river Piranga, within the district of the parish of St. 

 Antonio d' Itaberava to the south of Villa Rica, is the large arraial of Catas 

 Altas da Noruega, with a chapel of St. Gon9alo. 



Marianna, originally the arraial of Carmo, until 1711, when John V. bestowed 

 upon it a register of royal duties, and the name of Villa Leal do Carmo, (Loyal 

 Town of Carmo.) It was created an episcopal city in 1745, by the sahie 

 monarch, with the name of his consort. It is small, well supplied, and 



