A808    Beagle Library:     Mawe, John. 1812. Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.   Text   PDF

, therefore it is more probably owing to the gas which escapes from the leaves in fermentation. The above are the principal articles of commerce produced in the district. Bahia has a considerable trade with St. Catherine's, and other ports on the coast, from whence are exported various articles that may suit the market, which is continually fluctuating. A great number of fine brigs and small vessels are employed in this trade. Produce to a considerable amount was exported to the River Plata, from whence

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, that trade has been transferred to England, where these precious stones annually arrive, and are sold by private contract. The collection of diamonds now in the possession of the Prince Regent is unequalled in number, size, and quality, by that of any potentate in the world; and I am credibly informed that it exceeds in value three millions sterling. This district has a direct communication with Bahia, and a few troops of mules are continually employed in going from one place to the other. The

A808    Beagle Library:     Mawe, John. 1812. Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.   Text   PDF

enlivened by the numerous coasting-vessels from Bahia, Pernambuco, and other ports, bound for the Plata, which frequently touch here; and it is amply provided with artisans of all descriptions, such as tailors, shoe-makers, tin-workers, joiners, and smiths. The inhabitants in general are very civil and courteous to strangers; the ladies are handsome and very lively, their chief employment is making of lace, in which they display great ingenuity and taste. The mountains of the interior, and the

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themselves with the hope of receiving a Prince, in whose praise every tongue was eloquent, and to whose cause every heart was loyal. The Brazilian empire was considered as established; and the worthy bishop consecrated the auspicious era by ordaining daily prayers in the cathedral, to invoke, from Divine Providence, the safe arrival of the Royal Family. News of their having touched at Bahia arrived in about ten days, and was welcomed by every demonstration of public joy, processions, fire

A808    Beagle Library:     Mawe, John. 1812. Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.   Text   PDF

the diamond works. The annual sum paid by Government for the hire of negroes, salaries of officers, and various necessaries, such as nitre and iron, does not amount to less than 35,000. and this, added to the demands of the inhabitants of the town and its vicinity, occasions a considerable trade. The shops are stocked with English cottons, baizes, and cloths, and other manufactured goods; also hams, cheese, butter, porter, and other articles of consumption. Mules from Bahia and Rio de Janeiro

A808    Beagle Library:     Mawe, John. 1812. Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.   Text   PDF

, printed cottons, stockings, and saddles, which have been much cheaper in Bahia than in England. Coarser articles are generally sent from Rio de Janeiro, the distance being, as before observed, much shorter; Of navigable rivers we can say but little. The many small streams, that rise in various parts, join and form the Jiquitinhonha, which, as before observed, may be navigated to sea, without any impediment, in at most ten days' time. How much would the country be benefited if a port were established

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Janeiro, from whence the returns are made generally in produce, consisting of gold, diamonds, and precious stones, sugars, cottons, hides, tobacco, tallow, wax, indigo, woods, and many other articles. The commerce of Bahia ranks next in importance to that of Rio, and a considerable proportion of it is conducted by English merchants. The returns are principally made in produce, and this circumstance secures to the native cultivator an eminent advantage over the foreign trader. H H 2 [page] 46

A808    Beagle Library:     Mawe, John. 1812. Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.   Text   PDF

. Arrival at Villa Rica, 235. Its origin and present state, 243. Notice on the Buticudos, 273. Villa do Principe, 305. Arrival at Tejuco, 311. Diamond works on the river Jiquitinhonha, 313. Account of Minas Novas and Paracatu, 337. Of Tejuco and Cerro do Frio, 349. Management of ilie diamond work, 353. Return to Rio Je Janeiro, 370. General view of Minas Geraes, 376. S. Jo o d' El Rey, 384. Sahara, 386. Bahia, 391. Pernambuco, 401. Seara, 402. Maranham, ib. Para 403. Matto Grosso, 407. Rio

A808    Beagle Library:     Mawe, John. 1812. Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.   Text   PDF

of Minas Geraes 267 CHAP. XVII. Brief Notices on the Capitanias of Bahia, Pernambuco, Seara, Maranham, Para, and Goyaz 280 [page] vi

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whence there is a good road. Here is a permutation-house, where all the gold found in the capitania is permuted. The governor is elected for three years, after which he is generally appointed to Bahia or Minas Geraes. In the capitania are many gold mines, some of which produce gold of a very fine quality. Diamonds have been found in some parts, which are different in their appearance from those found in Cerro do Frio, having more brilliancy on their exterior; but when cut, they are not in general of

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or March, because then the northeast winds prevail. I should advise crossing the line in not less than 22 , nor more than 25 west longitude, if the destination be the Plata or Rio de Janeiro, as I have twice experienced very long calms in crossing the line between 19 and 20 . Ships bound to Bahia, Pernambuco, and ports more northerly, will of course cross the line more to the westward, as they will have nothing to fear: but the south-west trade-wind would generally cause ships going farther south

A808    Beagle Library:     Mawe, John. 1812. Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.   Text   PDF

sailing from England, and that which affords the greatest probability of making a short passage, is the month of February or March, because then the north-east winds prevail. I should advise crossing the line in not less than 22 , nor more than 25 west longitude, if the destination be the Plata or Rio de Janeiro, as I have twice experienced very heavy calms in crossing the line between 19 and 20 . Ships bound to Bahia, Pernambuco, and ports more northerly, will of course cross the line more to the

A808    Beagle Library:     Mawe, John. 1812. Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.   Text   PDF

But to return from this digression to San Francisco. The chief occupations of the inhabitants are the cutting of timber, and other labours connected with ship-building. Vessels of large dimensions, and a number of small craft for coasters, have been built here by merchants of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and Pernambuco. When this trade is brisk, there is a great demand for the various classes of artisans whom it requires, and many negroes are employed. The wood used is so strong, and holds the iron

A808    Beagle Library:     Mawe, John. 1812. Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.   Text   PDF

small payments. Notwithstanding these strict regulations, a considerable quantity of the precious metal in its original state found its way to Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and other ports, clandestinely, without paying the royal fifth, until Government, apprized of this illicit traffic, established registers in various parts for the examination of all passengers, and stationed soldiers to patrole the roads. By these means, gold in immense quantities was seized and confiscated; the persons on whom any

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shipped from Bahia than from all the other ports of Brazil united, and in general it is superior in quality; that from certain plantations is decidedly so. It is not, however, esteemed of so strong a body as our best from the West Indies. The tobacco of this capitania is peculiar to it; and, by an exclusive privilege, no other part of Brazil was allowed to cultivate the same sort. It has given rise to much commerce, and has enriched many families. It was the most esteemed sort, not only in

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1775; it is the last and southermost Portugueze establishment on the great Paraguay. Eleven leagues to the south of Coimbra, on the west side of the Paraguay, is the mouth of Bahia Negra, a large sheet of water of six leagues in extent, being five leagues long from north to south: it receives the waters of the wide-flooded plains and lands to the south and west of the mountains of Albuquerque. At this bay the Portugueze possessions on both banks of the Paraguay terminate. From thence the river

A793.1    Beagle Library:     Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 1.   Text

Tortrices disfigure them by rolling them up, or the leaf-cutter bees by taking a piece out of them, or certain Tine again by eating their under surface, and so causing them to wither either partially or totally. You have doubtless observed what is called the honeydew upon the maple and other trees, concerning which the learned Roman naturalist Pliny gravely hesitates a The same intelligent gentleman related to me, that a person having taken some land at Bahia in the Brazils, he was compelled by

A767.60    Beagle Library:     Anon. 1816-30. Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles. Par plusieurs Professeurs du Jardin du Roi. 60 vols (and 8 vols plates). Strasbourg: F.G. Levrault. vol. 60.   Text   PDF

- nairement féminiflore, quelquefois neutriflore. Clinanthe or- dinairement nu, rarement alvéolé ou iimbrülé. i. Schkuhria. 2. Trichophyllum. - 3. Eriophyllum. - 4" Achyrofappus. - 5. Bahia. - 6. Ac tinta. - 7. Dugaldia.- 8. Htltnium. - 9. Tetro du s. - 10. Leptopodao- 11. Balduina. -- i 2. Gaillardiao II. Galinsogées. = Calathide radiée , à couronne fémini- flore. Clinanthe garni de vraies squamelles. i3. Sabazia. - 14. Stlloa. - iô. Leontophthalmum. - 16. Mocinna. - 17. Galinsogao- 18

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it under the genus Cephaelis. That they are essentially distinct, however, will readily appear from the comparison of their descriptions given in the Appendix.* Humboldt and Bonpland have also very lately described and figured the Psychotria emetica as the Ipecacuanha of New Spain. The Callicocca ipecacuanha grows, according to Brotero, in shady and moist places in Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio di Janeiro, and other provinces of the Brazils. The Psychotria emetica according to Humboldt is cultivated

A597.7    Beagle Library:     Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 7.   Text   Image

, there is only one-seventh of which the access is entirely free between Cayo de Piedras and Cayo Blanco, a little to the east of Puerto Casilda, where anchorages are found that are often frequented by small barks; such as the Surgidero del Batabano, Bahia de Xagua, and Puerto Casilda, or Trinidad of Cuba. Beyond this latter port, towards the mouth of the Rio Cauto and Cabo Cruz (behind the Cayos de doce leguas), the coast, filled with lagons, is little accessible, and almost entirely desert. I have

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. 23 9 , long. 84 43 ); Mariel (lat. 23 5 58 , long. 85 2 ); Puerto de Cava as (lat. 23 3 , long. 85 13 ); Bahia Honda (the most southern coast of the bay near Potrero de Madrazo, lat. 20 56 7 , long. 85 32 10 ). East of Cabo San Antonio (lat. 21 50 , long. 87 17 22 ): Surgidero del Batabano (lat. 22 43 19 , long. 84 45 56 ); Bahia de Xagua (lat. 22 4 , long. 82 54 ); the two ports of the town of Trinidad de Cuba, namely, Puerto Casilda (lat. 21 45 26 , long. 82 21 7 ), the mouth of Rio Guaurabo

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. iii, p. 402); Porto Cabello (Vol. iv, p. 201); Chichiribiche (Vol. iv, p. 204); Puerto del Manzanillo; Coro; Maracaybo; Bahia Honda; El Portete et Puerto Viejo; the island of Marguerita has three good ports, Pampatar, Pueblo de la Mar, and Bahia de Juan Griego. (Those printed in Italics are the ports most frequented.) [page] 23

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the name of Serra do Espinha o, and considers as the principal part of the whole structure of the mountains of Brazil. This Cordillera loses itself towards the north*, between Minas Novas and the southern extremity of the Capitania of Bahia, in 16 of latitude. It there remains more than 60 leagues removed from the coast of Porto Seguro; but towards the south, between the parallels of Rio Janeiro and Saint Paul (lat. 22 23 ), in the knot of the mountains of Serra da Mantiqueira, it draws so

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de Bayamo, and the Bahia de Nipe. Perhaps the abundance of copper mentioned by the Conquistadores of the sixteenth century*, at a period when the Spaniards were more attentive to the natural productions of America, than in later times, was owing to the formations of amphibolic slate, transition clay-slate mixed with diorite, and to euphotides, analogous to those I found in the mountains of Guanabacoa? The central and western parts of the island contain two formations of compact limestone, one

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, Matanzas, Mariel, Bahia Honda, Batabano, Xagua, and Trinidad, might oppose a longer or shorter resistance; but two-thirds of the island are almost without defence, and could scarcely be protected by the most active gunboats. Intellectual cultivation, almost entirely restrained to the class of the whites, is as unequally distributed as the population. The first society of the Havannah resembles, in ease and politeness of manners, the society of Cadiz, and of the richest commercial towns of Europe; but