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of eight miles to the base of a beautiful cascade. The others are all small. 

 The bar of the Ilheos is pointed out by four islands ; three are very rocky, the 

 other is robed in verdant woods, and the whole are of moderate elevation.- 



Three miles north of the bar of Ilheos is that of the Itahype, which is nar- 

 row and deep, not having more than twenty-five miles of extent, being the out- 

 let of a deep lake of the same name. It is seven miles in circumference, and 

 three in width, with a small island, and is bordered with woods and forests, 

 from whence issue several small streams into this fine receptacle. The spon- 

 taneous woody productions of the banks of this lake might be conveyed with 

 much facility to the bay of Ilheos, by opening a canal from the Itahype to the 

 Fundao, and which undertaking had, in fact, at some former period been com- 

 menced. 



In the northern part of this comarca are to be observed the rivers Marahu 

 and Acarahy, which flow into the bay of Camamu ; the Serenheham, which 

 empties itself in front of the island of Boypeba ; the Jiquie, which enters by 

 two unequal mouths into the channel that separates the isle of Tinhare from 

 the continent ; the Una, which originates in the serra of Pedra Branca, (White 

 Stone,) and runs into the sea a few leagues to the north of the Jiquie ; and the 

 Jiquirica, which descends from the serra Giboya, having its mouth a few miles 

 to the north of the Una. The whole afford only a very short navigation, and 

 the largest have not a course exceeding sixty miles, their waters being precipi- 

 tated by numerous falls, and flowing through a country of a mountainous aspect, 

 possessing fertile soil and forests of fine timber. 



Ports and Islands. — The bay of Camamu, at the southern entrance of 

 which is Point Mutta, with a fort, is the only port of the comarca capable of 

 receiving large vessels. It is beautified with several islands, and has numerous 

 streams navigable only as far as the tide advances. 



From the bay of Camamu, nearly to the Una, the coast is bordered with 

 islands ; three of which, only, are of any considerable size, the Tinhare, the 

 Boypeba, and the Tupiassu. 



The island of Tinhare, better known by the name of Morro, in consequence 

 of having a rock called the morro of St. Paulo, is eighteen miles long from 

 north to south, of proportionable width, with a fort at its northern extremity, 

 and near it a povoa^ao, and hermitage of Our Lady da Luz. 



The island of Boypeba, south of Tinhare, from which it is separated by a 

 channel, is six miles square, and has a town on its eastern shore. 



The island of Tupiassu, ten miles long from east to west, and half the width. 



