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Villa do Principe, the head of the comarca, and residence of its ouvidor, 

 (who fills other offices,) is considerable, well supplied, and possesses a church 

 of the Lady of Concei^ao, a chapel of the Lord of Matozinhos, anotlier of St. 

 Rita, three of the Lady of Purifica^ao, Carnio, and Rozario. It is ill situated, 

 has only one good street, and was erected into a town in the year 1714. It 

 has a Juiz de Fora, a royal professor of Latin, and a smelting house for gold, 

 with the same appointments as that of Sahara. This town is in the vicinity of 

 the serra Lapa, two miles distant from the river Peixe, (a branch of the St. 

 Antonio,) near one hundred north-east of Sahara, one hundred and ten north- 

 north-east of Marianna, and three hundred and seventy almost north-west of 

 Rio de Janeiro. The inhabitants are miners, and cultivators of Indian corn, 

 legumes, cotton, and sugar; the whites constitute twenty-two companies of 

 infantry, the mulattoes thirteen, and the free blacks six. The revenue of the 

 vicarship amounts to twelve thousand crusades, and that of the camara to 

 seven. In the whole of the comarca there are two regiments of cavalry, one 

 of eight, and the other of nine companies. 



Within the district of the last town, and at a distance of forty miles, is the 

 large arraial and parish of Concei^ao, in whose environs is the serra of Gaspar 

 Soares, abundant in iron mines, for the working of which a royal establishment 

 is forming. 



Bom Successo, better known by the name of Fanado, created a town in 

 1751, is well situated on elevated land, enjoying a tine climate, between two 

 small streams that afford it the name, and uniting, enter the Arassuahy, which 

 passes six miles distant to the north. It has a church dedicated to the " Chief 

 of the Apostles," chapels of the Lord of Bom Fim, of the Lady of Amparo, 

 for the mulattoes, of Rozario, for the blacks, St. Anna, St. Joze, and St. Gon- 

 9alo ; and a Terceira order of St. Francisco. It possesses a Juiz de Fora, and 

 a rbyal professor of Latin. It has not one house of stone. The inhabitants follow 

 the same occupations as those of the last town, and some work for precious 

 stones. The general traders are the most independent. This place is two 

 hundred and twenty miles north-east of Marianna, two hundred and ten, nearly 

 in the same direction, from Sahara, one hundred and twenty-five north-north- 

 east of Villa do Principe, and four hundred and fifty from Rio de Janeiro. In 

 its extensive circuit there are various hermitages, namely, Piedade, Mercez, 

 Penha, St. Joao, Prata, and Barreiras. Their numbers are expected to increase 

 to the east and south as far as the river Doce, when the projected roads to the 



