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winter. They are two leagues north-east of the river Alagoas, and in them 

 people disembark to go to the town of this name, because the river, which 

 formerly afforded passage for smacks, at present will not admit of canoes. It 

 is therefore necessary to go a league by land, and re-embark on the lake. 



Cururippe is a beautiful bay, capable of receiving large ships. It is sheltered 

 by a reef, which breaks the fury of the sea. It has two entrances, one to the 

 south and the other to the north ; but the anchorage is not generally good. The 

 bay receives the river from which it derives the name. It is a deep and quiet 

 stream of black water, and navigable for canoes some leagues ; the least depth 

 is at the mouth. Its banks are covered with mangroves, reeds, and divers trees. 



Lakes. — The considerable lakes are the Jiquiba, five leagues long and one 

 wide, brackish, containing fish, and is discharged twelve miles to the north-east 

 of Cururippe; and the Manguaba, ten leagues long and one at the greatest width, 

 is salt, and abounds with fish. It is divided by a straight into two portions, one 

 called Lagoa do Norte, the other Lagoa do Sul, which is the largest. Its 

 channel of discharge is the before-mentioned river of the Alagoas, about a 

 cannon-shot across. Various small rivers here empty themselves. Its banks 

 are cultivated in parts ; in others covered with mangoes. In its neighbourhood 

 are various sugar works, the produce of which is transported, with cotton and 

 other articles, in large canoes, to a northern part of the lake, from whence 

 they are carried in carts for the space of three miles to the ports of 

 Jaragua and Pajussara, where the smacks are laden with them for the Recife, 

 or Bahia. 



The fDllowing are the towns in the three comarcas into which this province is 

 divided. 



COMARCAS. 



TOWNS. 



Ollinda 



Ollinda* 

 Goyanna 

 Iguarassu 



Pau d' Alho. 



Limoeiro 

 Recife 



Recife 



Serenhen 

 St. Antonio 

 St. Antao. 



* Ollinda, although the head of a comarca, being commonly considered, with Recife, to constitute 

 tiie city of Pernambuco, they will be described together, 



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