NOTICES OP BRAZILo 



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Intelligencer," published at Washington, D. C. The others 

 are the ^'0 Indigena do Brazil," and "0 Iman. Jornal 

 Caramuru," and some others, of the size of half a sheet of 

 foolscap paper. They are occupied with items of foreign news, 

 imperial decrees, personal attacks, and advertisements of run- 

 away slaves. Some of these are curious. 



Boga-se ao Sr. Jodo Carlos Bouvier de chega a rua Di- 

 reitay N. 34, d, respeito de hum negocio que ndo ignora, isto 

 no praso de trez dias da publicagdo deste, alids a natureza 

 de negocio sord publicada.^^ 



Mr. Joao Carlos Bouvier, is requested to call at No. 34, 

 rua Direita, relative to an affair of which he is not ignorant ; if 

 he do not in three days from this, the nature of the affair will 

 be published." 



Another. — ^'Roga-se ao Sr. Cirurgido Antonio Francisco 

 Pereira da Fonceca, haja de mandar a rua de S. Jose, N. 

 122, pagar 4\\l20rs. que deve ha mais de dous annos.^^ 



Mr. C A F Pereira da Fonceca is requested 



to send to No. 122, rua de S. Jose, and pay 4||120 rs., which he 

 has owed more than two years !" — An unpleasant dun ! 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Geography of Brazil — Products — Diamond Mines. 



The empire of Brazil is the most extensive of the several 

 countries of South America. Nature has marked the boundary 

 on the north by the river Maranon ; on the south is the Re- 

 public of Montevideo, formerly the Banda Oriental ; on the 

 west, the mountains of Matto-Grosso separate it from Peru ; 

 and on the east, its shores are washed by the Atlantic. 



The whole country is watered by large streams, which afford 

 a water communication in almost every direction j and by the 

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