PROVINCE OF PARAHIBA. 



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above its mouth, thirty-five from Pombal, and has a church of the Lady of 

 Remedies. The inhabitants cultivate legumes, sugar, water-melons, and 

 melons, in the vicinity of the rivers; and on the serras, mandioca, cotton, and 

 Indian corn ; in the catingas cattle pasture, and abound with a diversity of 

 game. In the year 1806, there was scarcely an orange tree in the districts of 

 the last two towns, where all the trees are bent to the west, in consequence of 

 the constant and sometimes impetuous east wind that prevails here. 



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