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TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 



is considerable; .they consist of farinha, beans, 

 bacon, and dried or salt meat. The produce of 

 their cattle, such as hides, ox horns, horn tips, 

 dried and salt meat, tallow, and bacon, and rice 

 and wheat flour, come by sea chiefly from the 

 provinces of Rio Grande do Sul *, and S. Paulo. 

 The latter furnishes also cheese, tanners' bark of 

 the mangrove tree, some gum, cotton, sugar, and 

 rum. The capitania of S. Catherine sends sole- 

 leather, onions and garlic which thrive there ad- 

 mirably, dried flsh, and pottery. The small har- 

 bours to the north of Rio, such as S. Joao do 

 Parahyba, S. Salvador, Macahe, Porto Seguro, 

 Caravellas, Victoria, &c., supply the market of 

 Rio with a considerable quantity of vegetables for 

 the table, flsh, and the productions of their fine 

 forests, such as beams, planks, pipe-staves, hoops, 

 charcoal, fuel, Brazil wood, tanners' bark, cocoa- 



* The total exportation of wheat from Rio Grande de San 

 Pedro amounted, in the year 1816, to 279,621 alqueires (70lb.); 

 in the year 1817, to 133,359 ; in 1818, to 76,395. The ex- 

 portation of hides from the same place was, in the year 1816, 

 368,909; in 1817, 238,979 ; in 1818, 290;950. For these, and 

 other statements, we are indebted to the kindness of our friend, 

 Mr. F. Schimraelbusch of Solingen, who, during many years' 

 residence in Brazil, has acquired very extensive knowledge of 

 its commercial relations. From Chili, which, according to 

 Bland, exports much corn, none has yet come to Rio de Ja- 

 neiro. In fact, the intercourse between these two places is 

 still very inconsiderable. During the time of our stay, a Swiss 

 made the first speculation, by a consignment composed chiefly 

 of German manufactures, to Valparaiso. 



