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PROVINCE OF PERNAMBUCO. 



TOWNS. - 



Porto Calvo 

 Alagoas 

 Atalaya 

 Anadia 

 Maceyo 



Porto de Pedras. 

 Poxini 

 Penedo. 



Goyanna, situated in low ground between the rivers Capibari-mirim, which 

 washes it on the north, and Tracunhaen on the south, a little more than a league 

 above their confluence, is a large, populous, and flourishing town, well supplied 

 with meat, fish, and fruits. It has a church of Our Lady of Rozario, a her- 

 mitage of the same name, others of Amparo, Concei^ao, and the Senhor dos 

 Martyrios, a house of misericordia, a convent of slippered Carmelites, a Mag- 

 dalen, two bridges, and a Juiz de Fora ; there is a royal professor of Latin. 

 It has a fair for cattle on Thursdays. A large quantity of cotton is exported ; 

 the principal productions of the farmers of its extensive district, where there 

 are above twenty hermitages almost all with chapels. It is sixty miles north- 

 west of Ollinda, and fifteen from the sea. In 1810 it had four thousand four 

 hundred inhabitants, including its district ; but the town itself now contains 

 near five thousand. 



Seven miles south of the mouth of the river Goyanna, and near the beach, 

 is the parish of St. Louren^o de Tijucopabo, which is augmenting. Thirty-five 

 miles west of Goyanna is the parish of St. Antonio de Tracunhaen, near to 

 this river : its inhabitants cultivate cotton. 



Iguarassu is considerable, and the most ancient town of the province. It is 

 honoured with the title of loyal, and has a church dedicated to the companion 

 Saints of Cosme and Damiao, a house of misericordia, a convent of Francis- 

 cans, a Magdalen, four hermitages, and is well supplied with fish, meat, and 

 fruits. It is five or six leagues north of Ollinda, and two from the sea, upon 

 the right bank of the river that gives it the name, and which is formed by the 

 small rivers Ottinga, Pittanga, and Taype, that unite themselves above. There 

 is a bridge over it, and canoes arrive here with the tide, but smacks remain 

 two miles lower down. Sugar and cotton are the articles of exportation. 



Two leagues north of Iguarassu, on the Goyanna road, is the considerable 

 village of Pasraado, inhabited by whites, in great part locksmiths. 



Alagoas 



