PROVINCE OF PARAHIBA. 



reefs affords a passage, with three fathoms of depth, and is little more than ten 

 miles to the north of Point Lucena, 



The Grammame, originally Guaramama, which discharges itself between 

 Port Francez and Cape Branco, has a large wooden bridge over it, on the road 

 from Goyanna to the city of Parahiba. It is only navigable as far as the tide 

 advances. 



The Cammaranba, which enters the sea ten miles north of the bay of Traicao, 

 and the Popoca, which discharges itself six miles to the north of the Goyanna, 

 are also navigable with the tide. 



In the western part is the Piranhas, which has acquired the name of the fish 

 with which it abounds. Its source is at the base of the serra of Cayriris, and 

 after seventy miles of course to the north, it gathers on the left the river Peixe, 

 which comes from the serra of Luiz Gomez, with fifty miles of extent, always 

 flowing through campinhas, where there are a great many emu-ostriches, and 

 in its vicinity have been found gold and silver. Twenty-five miles below this 

 confluence, it receives on the right the Pinhanco, which is little inferior to it, 

 also flowing from the serra of Cayriris, in a serpentine course through an exten- 

 sive district, abounding with cattle belonging to various fazendeiros, or breeders, 

 who live dispersed about in different situations. After a long course, having 

 become considerable by other streams, it enters the province of Rio Grande in 

 its way to the ocean. 



Mountains. — Almost all the mountains with which this province is inter- 

 spersed, are arms of the serra Borborema, commencing near the sea, within 

 the province of Rio Grande, which traverse it from north-east to south-west, 

 dividing it into tw^o parts, east and west. The latter, denominated Cayriris 

 Novas, is an elevated country, and being refreshed with winds is wholesome, and 

 also considerably wider than the eastern portion. January, February, March, 

 and April, are here the most rainy months. 



In the serra of Teyxeira, which is a portion of the Borborema, there are some 

 inscriptions with green ink, in characters unknown to the adjacent inhabitants, 

 but which are reputed to be the work of the Dutch, or the Flamengos, as they 

 are yet called here. 



Zoology.— All the domestic animals of the Portuguese peninsula, multiply 

 here without degenerating much. In the woods are seen the anta, deer, 

 ounce, boar, monkey, quaxinin, preguica, or sloth, paca, quaty, and other 

 quadrupeds common to the neighbouring provinces. There is here a species of 

 ferret, the size of a cat, and resembling the qnaty, with which the hunters draw 



