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PROVINCE OF BAHIA. 



matics, Greek, Latin, &c. but they are far from diffusing the knowledge their 

 high-sounding denominations would warrant the expectation of. There is also 

 a public library in the ex- Jesuitical college, a printing press, the only one in the 

 Brazil excepting one at Rio, a manufacture of glass, and a seminary for the 

 meninos orfaos (young male orphans.) 



Various forts defend this city on the sea side; amongst which may be 

 remarked that of St. Marcello, of a circular form, with two batteries situated 

 in the centre of the anchorage place. On the land side there is an extensive 

 and deep lake, which, for a considerable period, served as a fosse, called the 

 Dique, and where there are many alligators. This city was taken by the Dutch 

 in 1634, and cannonaded by a force under Prince Nassau, without a similar 

 result, in the year 1636. 



In its eastern suburb is the hospital of Lazaretto, which was a house of re- 

 creation belonging to the Jesuits, and where there is a plantation of Malabar 

 pimento trees, the finest, it is said, in the Brazil. The suburb of Bom Fim 

 took its name from a chapel of that title, very agreeably situated. About two 

 miles to the east is the parish of Our Lady of Penha, in the extremity of a 

 peninsula where the archbishops have a country house, and where there is a 

 dock-yard for the construction of large ships. This situation, called Tapagype, 

 is beautified with a profusion of the airy cocoa-nut trees. 



In the suburb of Victoria is the before-mentioned entertaining house of the 

 Benedictines, in whose church of Our Lady of Graca is an epitaph relative to 

 D. Catharina Alvarez, the daughter of an Indian chief, and one of the wives 

 of Diogo Alvarez Correa, the Caramuru. She accompanied Correa to Europe, 

 where they remained a short period and excited much interest at the French 

 court, where she was christened, and called after Queen Catharine, relinquish- 

 ing her name of Paraguassu, derived from the river already described. The 

 epitaph is comprised in the following words : — 



" Sepultura de D. Catharina Alvarez, SenJiora desta Capitania da Bahia, a 

 " qual ella, e seu marido Diogo Alvarez Correa, natural de Vianna, deram aos 

 " Senhores Reys de Portugal: Fez, e deu esta Capella ao Patriarca St. Bento. 

 " Anno de 1582."* 



The society of this city is considered superior to that of Rio de Janeiro, and the 



* Sepulclire of Donna Catharine Alvarez, Lady of ttiis Captaincy of Bahia, which she, and her 

 " husband, James Alvarez Correa, a native of Vianna, gave to the Kings of Portugal, and erected 

 ** and gave this chapel to the patriarch St. Bento. The year 1582." 



