3?2 A VOYAGE T0 Book IX. 



Bc&rQT tn, or farther from the fhore according to the 

 rapidity of the river. 



» Froa'! the above confiderations I thought it pra6ti- 

 eable ro open a paffage for large vefTels up the river 

 Real, and propofed it to the inhabitants. My fcheme 

 was to have ftopped up the three ibuthernmoil chan- 

 nels, and have thrown the whole current of the river 

 clown the northernmoft, which would have removed 

 t!^e bar farther out to fea into very deep water, and 

 in all prababillty have opened a paffage for the largeft 

 Hiips into the fineil: harbour in the world. From the 

 heiT cllimaticn J could make, it would not have cod 

 looO'L But through indolence, or fonie fecret caule, 

 k was rejc cTced. 



About twelve leagues to the fouthward of Rio Real 

 is a fmall harbour, called Torre Garcia de Avilla, 

 tvhkh is defended by four pieces of cannon : the town 

 lies about a mile above the port, on the higheft land 

 on this coaft, and is the bed for a fhip to make, that 

 h bound to Bahia while the N. E. wiud blows ; as the 

 coaft is bold as far as Punto de Tapoas, which is the 

 eaiternmoft land before you bear away for Bahia Todos 

 OS Santos, and may be known by a number of cocoa- 

 rut-trees, v/hich grow upon it. Give this point a good 

 birth, and approach not within a league of the jQiore 

 " till the cadle of St. Anthony^ at the entrance of the 

 bay, bears N. by W. then there is no danger till you 

 are near the round fort, which before you come to, 

 you may find anchoring groundenough in what 

 depth you pleafe. 



The city of Bahia Todos os Santos dedicated to 

 St, Salvador, by which name it is fometimes known, 

 lies up the bay about two leagues from Point St. An- 

 thony on v/hich the fort ftands. The mouth of the 

 bay, which is about three leagues v/ide, is formed by 

 the main land an the (larboard fide and by the iHand 

 Taporico an the larboard. A fhip may keep over on 

 V the larboard £dt within three quarters of a league of 



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