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Grande. In this interval the following rivers run into the sea : — The Doce, 

 which is short, and comes from a small lake ; the Paratiji, the St. Antonio 

 Mirim, and the Paripneira, which receives the Cabu^ii on the right, near its 

 mouth. Maceyo is becoming a place of some commerce, and will be the em- 

 porium of the trade of the comarca of Alagoas. One English establishment 

 already exists here, and shipments are made direct from hence to Great Britain. 

 An European first settling in any of the towns of Brazil, and particularly in 

 places of this class, makes a sacrifice of all the comforts common to well regu- 

 lated society. 



Porto de Pedras is a dismemberment of Porto Calvo ; its district embraces 

 nearly nine leagues of coast, occupying the interval from the aforesaid river 

 St. Antonio Grande to the Manguape. The Cumuriji and the Tatnamuhy 

 are the principal rivers that empty themselves upon its shores. The two last 

 towns have each two ordinary judges, and one of orphans ; three veradores, or 

 species of aldermen, a procurador of the council, a treasurer, two clerks of the 

 market, an alcaide, with a scrivener of his office, two public scriveners, judicial 

 and notarial, the first of which holds that office in the council, also in the cus- 

 toms, and is market clerk ; the second also belongs to the office of scrivener 

 of the orphans. 



Poxim, a small town upon the margin of the river of the same name, which 

 enters the sea three leagues to the nortli-east of Cururippe, has a large bridge, 

 and a church dedicated to Our Lady of Madre de Deos. It is two miles from 

 the ocean, is well supplied with fish, and has in its district the new and yet 

 small aldeia of Our Lady of Concei(^ao, so called after the patroness of the 

 chapel which ornaments it ; and where upon festival days are assembled six 

 hundred families, dispersed around its neighbourhood. It is situated near the 

 river Cururippe, four miles from the sea ; and its good port, where at present 

 is only laden some timber and oil of the mamona, with the fertility of the 

 interior territory, will contribute to render this a considerable place at some 

 future day. The land in the proximity of the shore is sandy, and well adapted 

 to the cajiie-nut tree, which, in a short time grows to a large size, and its fruit 

 would fiu nish a branch of commerce. 



Penedo, a considerable, populous, and commercial town, is situated partly 

 in a plain along the bank of the river St. Francisco, and occasionally suffering 

 by its inundations, and partly upon a height at the extremity of a range, which 

 is the first elevated land met with on the northern margin, on ascending this 

 river. Besides the church dedicated to Nossa Senhora of Rozario, there is a 



