NOTES ON BRAZIL. 



also commences the Restinga, which runs between the lake and the sea, 

 about twenty miles. According to the account which the Jesuits 

 professed to have received from the natives, this elevated causeway- 

 was raised by the Deity for the escape of St. Thome, when he fled 

 from the rude, ungrateful people. Most certainly it has been called 

 in the native language Mairape, the Road of the White Man, and 

 probably might be the path by which Tzome withdrew. If this 

 part of the tale have any foundation in truth, it may intimate that 

 the Restinga began to exist within the reach of Indian tradition. 



