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E.vplanatory Notice inspecting the Map of the East Coast of Brazil, between 

 the I5th and 23d Degree of South Latitude. 



As there are none but very incomplete maps of the east coast of Brazil 

 in the hands of the Public, and it was impossible in my situation to lay 

 down a new one founded on astronomical observations, I selected the 

 best that I was acquainted with, by Arrowsmith, and made it my ground- 

 work. It is enlarged one third : some of the principal points and mouths 

 of rivers, as the bay of Rio de Janeiro, the mouth of the Paraiba, the 

 Espirito Santo, the Rio Doce, the Rio Grande de Belmonte, and the Rio 

 Pardo, have been left as they were, since it is to be presumed that the 

 mouths of these more considerable rivers have been accurately determined 

 upon astronomical principles. On the other hand I have endeavoured to 

 correct the positions of all the smaller streams and places lying between 

 them, according to the number of leagues which they are distant from 

 each other. Hence considerable deviations will be discovered from the 

 English map : in the latter, rivers are marked which do not exist, and 

 others are omitted: the many false names with which the old maps 

 abound, and of which no trace is to be i'ound in the country, have more- 

 over been erased. In this map, I have marked my course along the coast 

 and up the rivers with a fine line, and have endeavoured to denote with 

 colours the boundaries of the different tribes of the Tapuyas : the coloured 

 stripes farther inland intimating the connection of these same tribes. 

 The signification of the colours is stated in the map. For the complete 

 illustration of these coloured boundaries of the abodes of the difi^erent 

 tribes, it will be necessary, when they are mentioned in the text, to refer 

 to the map. The course of the Mucuri has been altered agreeably to the 



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