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Cayriris, in the district of Inhamu, and runs, like all the others, to the north, 

 passes the towns of St. Joam do Principe, St. Bernardo, and Aricaty, and 

 discharges itself into the ocean fifty miles west of the Appody. Its course 

 through the cattle plains is handsome and interesting ; the tide runs thirty miles, 

 and gives it a majestic appearance. It has a diversity of fish, a considerable 

 part of which enter with the inundations into the adjacent lakes, where they 

 are greatly diminished by the jahuru and other ichthyophagous birds. Its 

 principal tributaries are the river Salgado, which flows from the same cordillera, 

 breaks through a mountain which it encounters, passes by the parishes of 

 Lavras and Icco, and enters its superior by the right margin, having traversed 

 the district of Mangabeira, where there is gold, the extraction of which was 

 forbidden. The Banabuyhu, little inferior to the preceding, comes from the 

 vicinity of the before-mentioned cordillera, joining its waters to the Jaguaribe 

 a few leagues below the last confluence, having received, amongst other smaller 

 streams, the Quixeramuby. 



The river Caracu has its heads in the centre of the province, waters the 

 town of Sobral, and is discharged by two mouths near forty miles to the east 

 of the bay of Jericoacoara. The tide runs up some leagues, rendering it navi- 

 gable for a considerable space. 



The river Camucim, which in the interior of the country flows under the 

 name of Croaihu, and which has one hundred miles of course, originates in 

 the serra of Hibiapaba, refreshes the town of Granja, and empties itself 

 twenty-five miles to the east of the last-mentioned bay. It is navigable for a 

 considerable distance, and has at its embouchure a commodious anchorage for 

 sumacas, which export from thence a large quantity of cotton, principally to 

 Maranham. 



The river Aricaty is extensive, and enters the sea by two unequal mouths, 

 denominated Aricaty- Assu and Aricaty-Mirim; the first is the eastern. The 

 intervening island is four miles in diameter and about twenty-five east of 

 the Caracu. 



The Cahohyppe, which flows into the ocean, fifteen miles to the west of the 

 capital ; the Cioppe, eighteen miles more to the west ; the Curu, which dis- 

 charges itself twenty miles further in the same direction; and the Mandahu, 

 nearly fifty miles more, and eighteen to the east of Aricaty-Assu, are the only 

 others worthy of notice. 



In all the rivers of this province there is a species of fish resembling a skate, 

 with a spur upon the tail, the painful sting of which, when it does not produce 



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