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divides it into two parts ; the northern division was at first only inhabited by 

 Indians. It is a port or calhng place for the coasting-vessels that navigate from 

 Maranham to Para. Its church is dedicated to St. Joam Baptista. 



Twenty-five miles to the east-south-east of Braganca, and the same distance 

 from the sea, is the parish of St. Joze de Cerzedello, npon the right margin of 

 a small river. Thirty miles to the south-south- west of Braganca, and eighty 

 to the east of the capital, is the small town of Ourem, upon the right bank of 

 the Guama. It is ornamented with a church dedicated to the Espirito Santo, 

 and its inhabitants cultivate the necessaries of life. 



Vigia, an ancient town, and for some time considerable and flourishing 

 whilst the depository of a great quantity of cocoa and coflTee, brought thither 

 from the adjacent country, is fifty miles north-north-east of the capital, upon 

 the margin of the Para or Tucantins. The Jesuits had a college here, and the 

 Mercenarios an entertaining-house. Its primitive and proper name is St. Jorge 

 dos Alamos. The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Nazareth, and the in- 

 habitants are agriculturists and fishermen. 



Cintra is a small town, fifty miles west-north-west of Braganca, seventy 

 north-east of Para, and fifteen east of Villa Nova, pleasantly situated at the 

 mouth of the river Maracana, of which it formerly had the name. Its surround- 

 ing country is appropriated to various branches of agriculture ; the church is 

 dedicated to the Archangel St. Miguel, and its inhabitants, who are diminish- 

 ing, cultivate little more than the necessaries of life. 



In the vicinity, and north-east of Cintra, is the aldeia of Salinas, with some 

 regularity, and in a very agreeable district, having a place of worship dedicated 

 to Nossa Senhora do Socorro. 



Collares, formerly a middling town, and well supplied, is forty miles north- 

 north-east of the capital, upon an island six miles in length from north to south, 

 with proportionable width, and separated from the continent by a narrow strait. 

 It has only one church of the Lady of Rozario, and its environs are partially 

 appropriated to the production of coffee, cocoa, and the necessaries of life 

 common to the country. 



Twelve miles south-south-east of Point Tigioca, and sixty north-east of the 

 capital, is Villa Nova d' el Rey, upon the margin, and a very little above the 

 embouchure of the Curuca, at the bottom of a bay. Its inhabitants, for the 

 main part Indians, are fishermen, and cultivators of mandioca, Indian corn, 

 rice, cocoa, and coffee, which do not remove them from a state of poverty, 



So 



