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PROVINCE OF MINAS GERAES. 



St. Maria de Baepondy is yet a small town. The church is dedicated to Our 

 Lady of Concei^ao, and the wealth of its inhabitants consists in tobacco, for 

 which the soil is well adapted. It is fifty miles east of Campanha, and was 

 created a town by a law of the 19th of July, 1814, when to its civil govern- 

 ment were added two ordinary judges, one of orphans, three magistrates, two 

 regulators of the market, two public scriveners, judicial and notarial, the first 

 filling also the offices of escrivao of the town house, excise, and market, the 

 other the ofiice of escrivao of the orphans ; there is also an alcaide and his 

 escrivao. 



St. Carlos de Jacuhy is situated near the origin of the river which lends it the 

 name, has a church of the Lady of Concei9ao, and was created a town by the 

 same laAv as Baepondy, with the same civil ofiicers, to whom the parishioners 

 of Cabo Verde became subject. It is near the boundary of the province of St. 

 Paulo, and is abundant in cattle. 



In this comarca are the following parishes : — St. Anna de Sapocahy, twenty- 

 five miles from the river of the same name ; the inhabitants cultivate legumes 

 and are gold miners. Concei^ao de Camanducaya, fifteen to the right of the 

 Jaguary; it exports hides. Carmo de Cabo Verde, near the river from which it 

 takes the name ; its parishioners cultivate cotton, some wheat, are miners, and 

 export hides. St. Anna d'ltajuba, where wheat, rye, and Indian com are 

 cultivated. Pouzo-Alegre, whose inhabitants are agriculturists. St. Pedro 

 d' Alcantara Oiro Fino, where there are hot springs ; it is fifty miles from the town 

 of Bragan^a, and cattle and wheat are its productions. Concei^ao das Laoras 

 do Funil, sixty miles from St. Joao d'el Rey ; the inhabitants are agriculturists. 

 Concei9ao de Pouzo Alto, fifty miles from the town of Campanha, where cotton 

 and wheat are raised. Concei^ao da Juruoca St. Gon^alo, formerly a large 

 and flourishing arraial, near twenty miles from Campanha ; the inhabitants are 

 miners and agriculturists. 



Comarca of Sabara. 

 This comarca is bounded on the north by the province of Pernambuco ; on 

 the west by that of Goyaz ; on the south by the comarca of Rio das Mortes ; 

 and on the east by that of Serro Frio. It is three hundred and fifty miles from 

 north to south, and more than two hundred and ten from east to west. It is 

 watered by many rivers, the whole tributary to the St. FVancisco, which 

 traverses its southern part and separates it on the north from the comarca of 

 Serro Frio. It abounds in pasturage and large herds of cattle, and has mines 



