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river Orelha da Anta*; and four leagues lower down, on the same 

 side, the Orelha da Onpa*, from the mouth of which, after eleven 

 leagues of navigation, is found the junction which the river Anhan- 

 dery-uassu makes from the south with the Pardo, which, from the 

 passage of Camapuao to this point, completes a south-east course of 

 forty-five leagues in extent. The Anhandery and the Pardo, from 

 their confluence, run sixteen leagues of navigation westward, in one 

 channel, and disembogue in the west bank of the Parana in lat. about 

 21°. The velocity of the current of the Rio Pardo is very irregular: 

 it may be navigated downward in five or six days, but cannot be 

 ascended in less than twenty or thirty, and that by hauling, for the 

 force of the stream in some places is too great for oars. 



The river Parana is of great breadth and weight of water, and is 

 navigated against its current up to the mouth of the Tiete. In the 

 first three leagues occurs the island of Manuel Homem. Five 

 leagues above this island the Rio Verde falls into the Parana, by a 

 mouth of forty-two fathoms, on its western bank, and at an equal 

 distance above, on the opposite eastern side, the river Aguapehy 

 enters, by a mouth apparently above twenty yards wide. Eight 

 leagues above this river, and on the west side of the Parana, the large 

 river Sucuriu has its mouth, at least fifty fathoms wide, and, after 

 four leagues of navigation further, on the same side of the Parana, 

 is found the mouth of the large and interesting river, the Tiete -f. The 

 distance between the rivers Tiete and Pardo, according to the wind- 

 ings of the Parana, may be estimated at thirty-five leagues ; the di- 



* So called, because they abound with those animals. 



-|- Xhis river being the grand channel of communication from Rio de Janeiro, Santos, 

 St. Paul's, and other places, to the interesting districts of Cuiaba, Matto Grosso, the whole 

 of Paraguay, the river Plata, Potosi, Chiquisaca, and a great part of Peru, I have preserved 

 the particular detail given in this paper, of its numerous falls, and the difficulties of its na- 

 vigation, as it is now well known, and there is great reason to suppose, that it will soon be 

 much more frequented. 



