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PROVINCE OF ESPIRITO SANTO. 



Near the river Jecu, at a great distance above its mouth, in a fertile dis- 

 trict, is beginning to flourish the arraial of the same name, inhabited by white 

 agriculturists, and abounding with game. 



In the latitude of 20°, and upwards of five hundred miles distant from the 

 coast of this province, is the small and rocky island of Ascension, also called 

 Trinidade. It has good water ; but having no good anchorage place, and little 

 of its surface being susceptible of cultivation, it is uninhabited. 



