17^ A VOYAGE TO 



ma, and Coyaponia, crossing the Parana between the 

 confluence of the Parana hyba, and the falls of Uru- 

 bupunga. This road would be eighty leagues shorter 

 than that pursued by the way of Villa Boa. 



The foreign commerce of Brazil is every day in- 

 creasing, in a proportion commensurate with the rapid 

 advancement of the country. The principle articles 

 of export have already been noticed. In cotton, rice, 

 tobacco, and sugar, they are already our rivals in Eu- 

 rope; and lying more contiguous to the West Indies, 

 will rival us in the trade of lumber and live stock. 

 The province of Rio Janeiro, besides gold and pre- 

 cious stones, already exports ten thousand chests of 

 sugar, four millions of pounds of coffee, some manu- 

 factured tobacco, and fifteen or twenty thousand bags 

 of cotton, besides hides and rum. 



Bahia exports twenty-eight or thirty thousand chests 

 of sugar, of twelve or fourteen hundred weight each; 

 thirty thousand bags of cotton, of five arrobas each; 

 forty thousand rolls of tobacco in twists, and three 

 thousand bales of leaf, averaging about five hundred 

 weight. Also some coffee and rice, coarse earthen 

 ware, and grass cables, besides salted hides, tanned 

 leather, and rum. 



Pernambuco exports sixty or seventy thousand bales 

 of cotton, eleven to fourteen thousand chests of sugar, 

 one hundred thousand salted hides; Maranham ex- 

 ports nearly the same quantity of cotton as Pernamr 

 buco, and four or five thousand chests of sugar, some 

 rice and cocoa. Para exports cotton, rice, cocoa, and 

 drugs, as also woods of various kinds. , 



number. Perhaps no country has so many cataracts ^nd cascades^ 

 as the Brazil. 



