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Cayriris Velhos, about fifty leagues distant from the sea. Its source is brackish ; 

 the channel very stony, with many falls, and navigable only for about eight 

 miles. It is discharged by two mouths, one within the Recife, and the other 

 near four miles to the south, at the arraial of Atfogados, where there is a wooden 

 bridge two hundred and sixty paces in length. Topacora and Goyta are its 

 principal confluents, both of which join it by the right bank, with an interval 

 of four or five miles. The latter runs from a lake, denominated Lagoa 

 Grande. 



The Ipojuca rises in the Cayriris Velhos, near the Capibaribe, and runs 

 through countries appropriated to the culture of cotton and sugar, which 

 productions have been extremely advantageous to the agriculturist. It disem- 

 bogues between Cape St. Augustine and the island of St. Aleixo, forming a port 

 for the small vessels by which it is frequented. 



The Serenhen, which is considerable and advantageous to the cultivator, 

 empties itself almost in front of the isle of St. Aleixo. One of its largest con- 

 fluents is the Ceribo, which meets it on the left bank, not far from the sea. 



The Una comes from the district of Garanhuns, with a course of nearly forty 

 leagues, and in the vicinity of the ocean receives on the right the Jacuipe, which 

 is inferior, and runs into the sea through large woods. Both serve for the con- 

 veyance of timber, that is laden in the port at its mouth, which is about seven 

 leagues to the south-west of the island of St. Aleixo. 



The Goyanna, which is handsome and considerable, runs into the sea nine 

 miles to the north of Itamaraca, between the point of Pedras and the Cocoa- 

 Tree Point. It takes this name at the confluence of the Tracunhaen, which 

 has a considerable course, with the Capibari-mirim, much inferior, about three 

 leagues from the sea, to which place smacks and small craft ascend. The 

 water of the first is only good at the source. 



The other rivers upon the coast are the Cururippe, which discharges itself 

 twenty-eight miles north-east of the St. Francisco ; the St. Miguel, twenty-five 

 miles further ; the Alagoas, so called from being the mouth of two large lakes ; 

 the St. Antonio Mirim ; the St. Antonio Grande ; the Cammaragibe ; the Man- 

 guape ; the Rio Grande ; the Formozo ; the Maracahippe, which runs into the 

 sea between the Serenhen and the Ipojuca; the Jaboatao, which receives near 

 the coast the Parapamba by the right bank, their common mouth being desig- 

 nated Barra da Jangada, and is two leagues to the north of Cape St. Augus- 

 tine ; the Iguarassu, which discharges itself with considerable width five or six 

 leagues north of Olinda, and is formed by several small rivers, that unite 



