TRAVELS IN BRAZIL 



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dried fruits, distilled liquors, leather, medicines, 

 coarse calicoes, hats, coarse woollens, iron ware, 

 Bohemian glass wares, German and Dutch linens, 

 paper (chiefly Italian), Portuguese books, musical 

 instruments, gunpowder, pottery from Oporto, am- 

 munition, cordage, canvass, sail-cloth, tar, pitch 

 and other articles for the marine, steel, shoes, cop- 

 per wares, &c., &c., &c. In former times. East 

 India goods were brought here in large quantities 

 from Lisbon, but at present they are imported 

 direct from India. England (particularly London 

 and Liverpool) and its colonies supply Rio de 

 Janeii'o with all articles of English manufacture, 

 especially cotton goods of all kinds, fine cloths, 

 porcelain and earthenware, iron, lead, copper, tin, 

 raw and wrought, anchors, cables, gunpowder, 

 porter, cheese, salt butter, distilled liquors, &c. 

 From Gibraltar they receive many East India 

 goods, and, in Portuguese ships, also Spanish wines. 

 France imports, particularly from Havre de Grace 

 and Brest, in these latter times, articles of luxury, 

 trinkets, furniture, wax candle, drugs, liqueurs, 

 pictures and prints, French books, silks, looking- 

 glasses, hats, fine glass goods and china, dried 

 fruits, oil, and butter. Holland sends to Rio de 

 Janeiro beer, glass goods, linen, Geneva, which is 

 very much used in all the tropical countries on 

 account of its diuretic qualities, paper, &c. Austria 

 has sent many things to Rio de Janeiro on specu- 

 lation, namely, watches, pianofortes, muskets, li- 



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