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legumes, and cotton. Twenty miles above Almeyrim is the parish of Our 

 Lady of Desterro, at the mouth of the considerable Vaccarapy. Fishing, 

 hunting, and the culture of cotton and common necessaries, occupy its 

 inhabitants. 



Outeyro, a middling town, well supplied with fish, is situated upon a small 

 hill on the eastern side of the lake Urubuquara, formed by the river of the same 

 name ; it is fifteen miles from the Amazons, and sixty-five west of Almeyrim. 

 The church is dedicated to Nossa Senhora of Graca, and its productions are 

 similar to those of the preceding place. 



Montalegre, a considerable town, also abounding with fish, is situated on 

 the highest portion of a small island, near the eastern margin of the Gurupatuba, 

 which forms it. It is thirty-five miles above Outeyro, and seven from the 

 Amazons, and was one of the principal missions of the Jesuits, whose Hospicio 

 is now the residence of the vicar. Mandioca, feijao, cotton, cocoa, and coffee, 

 are its productions. In its district the clove-tree prospers, and it has a saw-pit, 

 on account of the treasury, for sawing the trunks of the cedars that the floods 

 of the Amazons deposit upon a neighbouring island. 



Prado is yet a small place, upon the eastern branch of the river Surubui, 

 twenty miles from the Amazons, and fifty west of Montalegre. Its inhabitants 

 are Indians, and live by some agriculture, hunting, and fishing. 



Alemquer is a considerable town, supplied with excellent meat, and well 

 situated upon the central embouchure of the lake Surubui, fifteen miles from 

 the Amazons, and fifty north of Santarem. It is a country infested with the 

 musquito, called carapana. The church is dedicated to St. Antonio. Man- 

 dioca, Indian com, rice, tobacco, and cocoa, are its productions. 



Curuamanema is the name of the third and western outlet of the lake 

 Surubui. 



Obydos, formerly Pauxis, the name of the Indians for whose establishment 

 it began, is a considerable town, upon a small hill, with some regularity, and 

 a large square in the centre, near the eastern mouth of the Trombetas, with an 

 extensive view of the Amazons, the whole of whose waters here rapidly descend 

 by a channel about a mile in width, but of such profundity, that the attempts 

 to find the bottom by sounding, have been unsuccessful. It has a magnificent 

 church, dedicated to St. Anna, and is fifty miles west of Alemquer. The inha- 

 bitants cultivate divers necessaries of life, cotton, and a large quantity of cocoa, 

 which is in the highest repute at the capital. 



Faro is a middling town, near a large lake, traversed by the river Jamunda, 



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