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PROVINCE OF BAHIA. 



itself into the ocean ten or twelve miles to the south-west of Rio Real. Within 

 its dangerous bar there is a bay; the navigation is short, and only for small 

 craft. Its adjacent country is mostly of the catinga kind, serving only for 

 breeding cattle. 



The Jaguaripe, originating on the borders of the road to the mines, about 

 forty miles west of the town of Cachoeira, in the situation of Curralinhb, flows 

 into the bay at Barra Falsa, affording navigation to large barks, for the space of 

 twenty miles. 



The river Paraguassu . rises in the vicinity of the serra Chapada, about the 

 centre of the district of the town of Rio de Contas. The small streams Cocho 

 and Encantada, (Enchanted,) which flow from a lake of the latter name, so 

 called from having a floating island, are the first confluents which it receives on 

 the left; the Paraguassusinho (the Little Paraguassu) is the first on the right. 

 The largest of the rivers that join it on the left is the Andrahy, which flows from 

 the vicinity of the serra of Orobo. Not far from the mouth of this river a small 

 stream enters the Paraguassu, which a little above re-appears, having flowed 

 for some miles hid under solid ground. About twenty miles below the large 

 cascade formed by its waters traversing the serra of Cincura, the Una joins it 

 on the right, being the only abundant stream that enters on that side, and whose 

 black waters change the crystalline Paraguassu to a yellowish colour. The 

 Capibary and the Peixe enter it on the left, also the Jacuhype, which rises in 

 the district of Jacobina, Twelve miles above the last confluence is the fall of 

 Timbora, less than that of Cincura. This river passes the towns of Cachoeira 

 and Maragogype, and discharges by a large mouth into the western side of the 

 bay of All Saints, The water is excellent; but ought not to be drank till kept 

 twenty-four hours. The occupiers of the central part of its banks are fre- 

 quently attacked with fevers, which are often fatal. 



The Serigy, or Serzipe, originates in the plains of Cachoeira, receives the 

 Subahe, which is equal to it, on the left, and, after ten or twelve miles more, 

 runs into the bay of All Saints, opposite the island of Cajahyba. 



A few miles to the west of the Serigy is the mouth of the Sararahy, also 

 called Assu, or Acupe, which becomes a small stream where the tide ter- 

 minates. The Piraja empties itself almost in the middle of the eastern side of 

 the bay. 



Near the extremity of the same side, the Matuin flows into the bay in front 

 of the Island of Mare, and has a fine bay within its bar. 



The Pitanga and the Paranna Mirim also add their mite to the waters of the 



