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la Plata, between Angostura and Montevideo. The course of the great rivers in the direction of the meridians would perhaps afford a natural boundary between the * Vol. v, p. 481, and p. 789. t As at the point where the Rio Jauru enters the Paraguay. See the Patriota de Rio Janeiro, 1813, N 2, p. 54. X 1fhe portage (varadoiro), properly speaking, is between the little rivers Aguapehy and Alegre. The former runs into the Jauru, which is a tributary stream of the Paraguay -9 the Rio Alegre falls

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Putumayo or Iza, where the Missions of San Antonio de Amaguajes, Socombios, and San Diego, are situate, the Upper Jupura; they make the Rio de Mocoa and the Rio Fragua fall into the Apoporis, which is but a tributary stream of the Caqueta; and they take from the Rio Iza (Issa or Putumayo) two thirds of its course. I shall observe on this occasion, that the most recent Portugueze maps, like the most ancient maps of D'Anville and de la Cruz, lay down the Chamusigueni, (Chamequisseen of Arrowsmith

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it is not known how far the mountainous country is prolonged, if we may call by that name a territory bristled with hills of one hundred or two hundred toises high. Between the Rio das Vertentes and the Rio de Tres Barras (tributary streams of the Araguay and the Topayos), several ridges of the Mounts Parecis run towards the north. On the right bank of the Topayos, a series of monticules advance (according to manuscript maps recently framed at the hydrographic Depot of Rio Janeiro) as far as the

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was maintained by the Jesuit Acunha: but it is little conformable to the results of the researches, which I have made in the works of the first historians of the conquest*. Acunha asserts * Acunha. Nuevo Discubrimiento del Rio de las Amazonas, Madrid, 1614. The comparison (p. 32) of the distance from the Oroonoko and La Roca de Dragos to the mouths of the Rio Felipe and the Maragnon would seem to prove, that Acunha places the Rio de Felipe a little to the north-west of the North Cape; while in

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the Jauru, which receives the Aguapehy, a marshy soil begins. It extends as far as Albuquerque, and its inundations (lat. 17— 19*) have given rise to the fable of the Laguna de Xarayes, as the inundations of the Rio Parime (Rio Branco), gave birth to the fable of the Laguna Parime (Mar del Doradoor Rupunu-wini), See Patrioia, 1813, No. 5, p. 33, and manuscript Map of Brazil, taken from 76 particular maps, at the depdt of Maps of Rio Janeiro, by Silvan Pontes heme, 1804. * Geographical and

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Saint Roque to the Rio de la Plata corresponds with that of the United States (stretching from S. W. to N. E.). The chain of the Alleghanies is oppo-* site to the latter coast, as the principal Cordil leras of Brazil are nearly parallel to the shore of the provinces of Porto Seguro, Rio Janeiro, atid Rio Grande. The Alleghanies, generally composed of grauwakke and transition rocks, are a little loftier than the almost primitive fountains (of granite, gneiss, and micaslate,) of the Brazilian groupe

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Neo, botanist of the expedition of Malaspina.) + See above, vol. v, p. 842. The Brazilian limits, in the government of the Rio Negro, were examined by the astronomers Jose* Jpaquim Victorio da Costa, Jose* Simoens de Carvulho, Francisco Jose* de Lacerda, and Antonio Luiz Pontes; and in the government of Grand Para, especially between the Araguari and the Calspene (Rip Carsewens of the Map of the Coast of the Guyana, published by the Depot of the Marine in 1817), by the astronomer Joze Simoens de

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144 Spanish Guyana and Brazil, the fort of San Carlos del Rio Negro to-be situate uuder the equator; a fort which I founds by the observations made at the rock of Culimacari, to be in 1 53S 42 of north latitude. The second cause of uncertainty, that which relates to political disputes respecting the limits, is of high importance, wherever the Portuguese territory is contiguous to that of the Spanish Americans* The manuscript maps traced at Rio Janeiro or Lisbon have little resemblance with

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380 linea divisoria reaches, according to different hypotheses, the mouth of the Rio Francisco, or Rio Janeiro, or the meridian of Saint Paul, which is still placed 1 to the east of Grand Para. Pope Julian sanctioned the treaty of Tordesillas by a bull issued January 24th, 1506; but the daring voyage of Magellan, and the discoveries (1500—1504) of the mouth of the river Amazon, by Vicente Janez Pinson, of Cape San 'Augustin, by Amerigo Vespucci, and the ports of Santa Cruz and of the Bahia of

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population of Brazil, however, must have augmented considerably during the last four or five years. According to documents presented to the house of commons at London in 1821, we see, that the port of Bahia received from January the 1st 1817, to January the 7th 1818, 6070 slaves, and that of Rio Janeiro, 18,032. In the course of the year 1818, the latter port received 19,802 Negroes. (Report made by a committee to the directors of tlie African Institution, on the Bth of May, 1821, p. 37.) I have

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(veins?) of diorite, but neither trachyte, basalt, dolerite, noramygdaloide; and,he was therefore more surprised to see, in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro, an insulated mass of phonolithe, entirely similar to that of Bohemia, pierce the gneiss soil ^. J am inclined to believe that America, on the east of the Andes, would have burning volcanos if, near the shore of Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil, the series of primitive rocks were interrupted trachytes. The trachytes, by their fen-dillation, and open

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the whole voyage of the Uranie round the world, commanded by M. de Freycinet, the temperatuie of the equatorial Ocean was never found below **?*, and even that temperature was only observed towards the extremity of the tropical zone, nearly east of Rio Janeiro, lat.22 13' south, and long. 20 46', therefore at more than 100 leagues from the isle Martin Vaz. (Compare also Sabine, Pend., V. 441.) 2f2 [page break

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des Sciences de Lige, vol. 14, pp. 1543, pls. 17. [Physorhinus galapagoensis (p. 394).] CARRIKER, M. A., JR. 1957. Notes on some of the Vernon L. Kellogg types of Mallophaga. Microentomology, vol. 22, pp. 95110. [Corrects generic assignments of two Galpagos species.] CARVALHO, J. C. M 19571960. A Catalogue of the Miridae of the World. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. vol. 44, 158 pp. (part 1); vol. 44, 158 pp. (part 1); vol. 45, 216 pp. (part 2); vol. 47, 161 pp. (part 3); vol

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- 347 IX. from LimatoPacasmayas, Pay- ta, and Guayaquil - 348 X from Guayaquil to the Galapagos Islands - - 351 XL--------- from the Galapagos to Panama 353 XII. General Remarks on the winds, weather, and navigation on the south and southwest coast of Mexico - - 855 XIII. Passage from Panama to Acapulco 363 XIV. —------from Acapulco to San Bias 366 XV. — from San Bias (round Cape Horn) to Rio de Janeiro - 370 XVI. ..........from Rio de Janeiro to Bahia 377 [page break

A560.1  (page sequence 221)   Book:     Spix, J. P. von and C. F. P. von Maurtius. 1824. Travels in Brazil, in the years 1817-1820. London: Longman. Volume 1.   Text   Image

, from S. Catherine afld Rio Grande do Sul in fifteen to six and twenty days, from Porto Seguro in eight to fifteen, from Bahia in twelve to twenty, according as the wind blows along the coast from south or north, which depends on the position of the sun. Maranho and Para export their productions direct without farther intercourse with Rio de Janeiro. The trade by land, too, is very extensive between Rio and the neighbouring provinces, especially with S. Paulo and Minas, to which there are toler

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TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. 269 CHAPTER III. JOURNEY FROM RIO DE JANEIRO TO THE CITY OF S. PAULO. We left Rio de Janeiro on the 8th of December, I8I7. Several of our countrymen and friends accompanied us to the distance of half a mile * from the city. The commencement of this expedition was not calculated to inspire us with sanguine hopes. Scarcely had we turned into the broad high road of Santa Cruz, when some of our mules lay down, some dispersed among the houses and gardens, and others threw off

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more remote districts of the interior, is not, indeed, so great as that of S. Paulo and Rio, which is carried on even ks far as Cioyaz and Matto-grosso, yet it extends even beyond the Rio de S. Francisco, almost over the whole capi-tania, and supplies it not only with the European articles purchased at Rio de Janeiro, but also with the produce of the environs; for in- * See Note 1. page 198. n 9 [page break

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X PREFACE. Janeiro, opened an extensive field of research, of which the Germans amply availed themselves. Many men, well-versed in different branches of science, especially mineralogy, entered into the service of the Court of Rio de Janeiro, and very interesting communications, sent by them, have been published in the German literary journals, though it is to be regretted that few of them have become known in this country. The marriage of an Austrian Princess with the Crown Prince of Brazil

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islands in the Bay of Rio, in that of Angra dos Reys, and on the lowest coast land (Beiramar), for instance in the yicinity of Paraty; it is also brought frere from the capitania of Espirito Santo. The dried and salted hides which Rio de Janeiro sends principally to England and Francej are mostly brought from Rio Grande do Sul, S. Paul and Minas. A view of these most important articles of exportation during the year 1817 is subjoined.* * See Not* 4. p^ge 205. [page break

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. BRAZIL TO BUENOS AYRES. 329 No. I. From Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Ayres. P. M. 14th of October to A. M. 23d, 1820. (8 J Day*.) This passage was made in less time than it usually occupies. We passed the Sugar Loaf at the entrance of Rio about four o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday the 14th of October 1820, and were off Maldanado, at the entrance of the river Plate, at the same hour on that day week, viz. the 21st, and anchored off Buenos Ayres at four in the morning of Monday the 23d; thus

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, all combine to compose a confused unheard-of discord, which is perfectly stunning to the stranger. By far the greater part of the population of Rio de Janeiro, consists of Portuguese and their descendants, both whites and people of colour. American aboriginal inhabitants are scarcely ever seen here. They avoid the city as much as possible, and appear but very rarely, and by chance, like birds of passage, in the bustle which is so contrary to their habits. The nearest are said to belong to the

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prisms of pinchbeck-brown mica of a middling size* The granite about Rio de Janeiro, as is always the case in similar mountains, often consists of earthy felspar of a greyish colour, sometimes spotted of a brownish yellow by oxyd of iron, smoky quartz, and but a little black mica, and at the slightest touch crumbling to pieces. The structure of the granite gradually becomes slaty, because the smoky quartz and the black small foliated mica (not so much the smoky felspar) combine, and the rock

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we had taken on our journey hither, and, on the 21st of April, returned safely, by way of Mariana, to Villa Rica. NOTE TO CHAPTER IL The first bishopric in Brazil was founded at Bahit in the year 1522, and raised to the rank of an archbishopric in the year 1667. The bishoprics of Rio de Janeiro and Pernambueo, which were founded at a later period, as also those of Angola and S. Thome% in Africa, were placed under it as suffragans. The bishopric of Maranhao, from which, under John V„ the bishopric

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we had taken on our journey hither, and, on the 21st of April, returned safely, by way of Mariana, to Villa Rica. NOTE TO CHAPTER II. The first bishopric in Brazil was founded at Bahia in the year 1522, and raised to the rank of an archbishopric in the year 1667. The bishoprics of Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco, which were founded at a later period, as also those of Angola and S. Thome*, in Africa, were * placed under it as suffragans. The bishopric of Maranhao, from which, under John V., the

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Orgaos; on the north side of the bay of Rio de Janeiro, and on the road to Villa Rica, the capital of the capitania of Minas Geraet* [page break