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and filled with fibres attached to a large stone ; there are two sorts similar in 

 taste, and denominated mirim. The pitoma is larger than the mangaba, oblong, 

 with a smooth rind, savory pulp, and a stone. Amongst the species of fruit 

 trees which the Portuguese have here naturalized, the most useful are the orange 

 and cocoa-nut; amongst other native trees are the jabuticaba, the ubaya, whose 

 fruit is similar to the first, of excellent quality, and also grows upon the trunk, 

 and even upon the roots that appear. The arassanhuna is also a fruit very much 

 like the jabuticaba, but not of so much flavour, and grows at the point of the 

 branches. The fig-tree fructifies in perfection. 



The soil is particularly well adapted to the cane, of which there are many 

 engenhos. Legumes, coflTee, cocoa, bananas, water-melons, and mandioca, 

 which latter is not grown in sufficient quantity for the consumption of the 

 population, the inhabitants preferring the culture of the cotton tree, of which they 

 make large plantations. Its produce constitutes their principal branch of com- 

 merce and wealth ; they export a considerable quantity, partly in the wool, and 

 partly in coarse cloth. A sort of narrow sail-cloth is likewise manufactured 

 with it, called tracado, to which a preference is given to that of flax, for forming 

 the sails of some of the coasting vessels. The production of rice and Indian 

 corn is considerable. 



Rivers and Ports. — The river Camapuan, commonly Cabapuanna, and 

 which the Indians call Reritigba, originates in the serra of Pico, not far distant 

 from the source of the Muryahe, runs between mountains augmented by various 

 others which join it, and enters the ocean fifteen miles to the north of the Parahiba. 

 It is navigable for large canoes for a considerable space, to a certain situation, 

 where its current begins to be more violent and its bed less disembarrassed. 



Ten miles to the north of the Camapuan, the Itapemirim empties itself, after a 

 considerable course, and is already large on crossing the cordillera. It is said 

 that one of its branches originates in the mines ofCastello, which were abandon- 

 ed in consequence of the invasions of the Puris and Aimbores. Sumacas 

 advance some miles up it, and canoes much further. 



The Piuma, which rises in an auriferous country to the west of the cordillera, 

 discharges itself fourteen miles to the north of the Itapemirim, and affords 

 navigation to canoes for a considerable space. 



Twenty miles to the north of the Piuma is the Benevente, which is only con- 

 siderable as far as the tide advances; it is supposed to descend from the 

 cordillera. 



The Guarapary, which discharges itself ten miles to the north of Benevente, 



