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This farm, in the hands of an experienced and skilful agriculturist, 

 might be managed so as to produce amazing returns. Its soil is wet, 

 adapted to the growth, not only of Indian corn, but of wheat, barley^ 

 potatoes, &c. and it is so well irrigated, by numerous mountain 

 streams, that the pastures are always luxuriant. Here are fine 

 falls of water, and abundance of excellent timber, so that corn-mills 

 might be erected at little more expence than what would arise from 

 the purchase of mill-stones. Connected with the nun^s farm below, 

 this establishment might be rendered one of the most complete and 

 advantageous in Brazil. 



Leaving Moro Quemado at noon, and descending on the other 

 side of the ridge of mountains, we passed through an unequal tract, 

 formed of hills and ravines. Onward the land appeared finer, and 

 the timber of a superior growth, but there were few cultivated 

 spots, and not many houses. The first extensive fazenda we 

 reached was that of Manuel Jose Pereira, a native of the Azores, 

 who managed his agricultural concerns much better than the other 

 farmers whom we visited. We were shewn a large field of Indian 

 corn, ready for cutting ; the quantity that had been sown was about 

 eleven fanegas, or bushels, and the produce was estimated at fifteen 

 hundred bushels, about one hundred and fifty for one. This was' an 

 ordinary crop ; in good years the harvest yields two hundred for one. 

 The corn, as before stated, is chiefly consumed in the fattening of 

 pigs ; the quantity requisite for this purpose is six or seven bushels 

 each, and the time, ten or twelve weeks. The curing of bacon is 

 performed by cutting all the lean from the flitches, and sprinkling 

 them with a very little salt. This food has the peculiar effect of 

 giving greater solidity to the fat, which of itself is not liable to pu- 

 trefaction. 



Though the owner of this farm has occupied it not more than five 

 years, and has had only the assistance of his two sons, and six 

 negroes, he has brought it into a very fair state of cultivation. In 

 his coffee plantation we observed five thousand trees in full bearing, 

 and the rest of his grounds were in an equally prosperous condition. 



