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Pau d'Alho, situated upon the right bank of the Capibaribe, and thirty-five 

 miles from the capital, was created a town in 1812, has a church dedicated 

 to the Holy Spirit, a hermitage of Our Lady of Rozario, and a market every 

 eight days. 



Limoeiro, also created a town in 1812, is upon the margin of the Capibaribe, 

 about thirty miles above Pau d' Alho, and has a church, dedicated to Our 

 Lady of Expecta^ao, and a market every week. Cotton constitutes the wealth 

 of its inhabitants. Whilst I remained at Pernambuco, an English gentleman 

 proceeded to this town for the purpose of establishing a machine for dressing 

 cotton, in which, I understand, he has been very successful. 



Serenhen, founded in 1627 with the name of Villa Formoza, situated on an 

 eminence upon the margin and seven miles above the mouth of the river from 

 which it borrows the name, is small, and has a church, dedicated to Our 

 Lady of Concei^ao, two hermitages, and a convent of Franciscans. Its 

 environs are remarkable for fertility, abounding with water and rich plantations 

 of cane. 



St. Antonio, so called after the patron of its church, is nine miles north-west of 

 Cape St. Augustin, near the margin of the Parapamba, and has two hermitages, 

 one of St. Braz, the other of Our Lady of Rozario. It was erected into a 

 town in 1812. 



St. Antao, situated near the small river Tapacora, and created a town in 

 1812, has a church dedicated to the same saint, and two chapels of Rozario 

 and Livramento, and a market every week. It produces much cotton. 



Amongst other places and considerable parishes in this comarca, is to be 

 remarked the Ipojuca, upon the margin of the river from which it derives its 

 name, two leagues distant from the sea, with a church of St. Miguel, and a 

 convent of Franciscans. 



Muribeca, with a church of Nossa Senhora of Rozario, a hermitage of the 

 same name, and another of Livramento, is situated between the Recife and 

 Cape St. Augustin, about three miles from the sea. Sugar is the produce of 

 both these places. 



Porto Calvo, a middling town with some commerce, and a church of Our 

 Lady of Aprezenta^ao, is situated upon the margin of the river, from which it 

 takes the name, and twenty miles from the sea. Bom Successo was its first 

 name ; to its haven formerly smacks arrived with the tide. It is the native 

 place of the mulatto Calabar, who, passing over to the Dutch in 1632, was to 

 them a great acquisition, and to the Pernambucans a great injury ; until he was 



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