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PROVINCE OF MINAS GERAES. 



ports of Porto Seguro are made and frequented. The fertility of the territory, 

 and the facility which proper measures may create for transporting produce to 

 the ports, will most probably attract numerous colonies to this district, which, 

 unquestionably, will become the best in the province, when the Aimbore In- 

 dians are subjugated. 



Ten miles to the north of Bom Successo is the parish of St. Cruz daChapada, 

 near the river Capibary. The inhabitants scarcely raise any of the necessaries 

 of life, but follow mining. 



Fifteen miles to the north-east of the preceding, and twenty-five from Bom 

 Successo, is the arraial of Agua Suja, (Dirty Water,) near the confluence of the 

 stream of its name, with the Arassuahy, having a church dedicated to the 

 Lady of Concei^ao. The inhabitants cultivate Indian corn, legumes, and 

 cotton, and are gold miners. In its district are the parishes of St. Domingos, 

 and Concei^ao, near the Sucuriu, whose parishioners raise the same articles, 

 and work for gold and precious stones. 



One hundred miles north of Bom Successo is the considerable arraial of Rio 

 Pardo, at the confluence of the river from which it takes the name with the 

 Preto, each having a bridge. The houses are in great part of adobe, and the 

 church of taipa. Its inhabitants raise cattle, mandioca, Indian corn, rice, 

 cotton, and a variety of fruits. 



Two hundred and ten miles north of Sahara, one hundred and thirty west- 

 north-west of Bom Successo, and one hundred and fifty north-north-west of 

 Villa do Principe, is the famous arraial and julgado of Barra do Rio das Vel- 

 has, situated in a plain at the confluence of the river of its name, from whose 

 floods it sustains considerable injury. It has a church of Bom Successo, and 

 a chapel of Lord Jesus of Matozinhos, has much commerce, is well supplied 

 with meat, fish, and fruit, and is the depositary of a large quantity of salt 

 that arrives from the salterns of the river St. Francisco. Fevers, which reign 

 here in the wet season, have driven away many inhabitants, and prevent this 

 place from becoming one of the largest povoa^oes in the province. This arraial, 

 that of Bom Successo, and others of the comarca, belong to the archbishopric 

 of Bahia. 



Two miles distant is the arraial of Porteira, with a chapel of the Lady of 

 Bom Successo and Rozario. In it reside the vicar, and the ofiicers of justice, 

 in consequence of being a healthy situation. 



Twenty miles further to the north, upon the margin of the St. Francisco, is 



