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, 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

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governor, a good repartimiento de Indios, we arrived (latitude 21 50 ) in the meridian of the entrance of the Bahia de Xagua. The longitude the chronometer gave me at this point was almost identical with that since published (in 1821) in the map of the Deposito hidrografico of Madrid. * This he renounced the same year from a scruple of conscience, during a short stay at Jamaica. VOL. VII. Y [page] 32

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extensive view. The port, or rather the bahia, is nearly nine miles and a half long, if we compute the length from the town (near the suburb of Jehemani or Xexemani) to the Cienega of Cacao. The Cienega is one of the nooks of the isle of Baru, south-west of the Estero de Pasacaballos, by which we reach the opening of the Dique de Mahates. Two extremities of the small isle of Tierra Bomba form, on the north, with a neck of land of the continent, and on the south, with a cape of the isle of Bar , the

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in the limestone of Jura. Is the formation of the serpentine of Guanabacoa repeated near Bahia Honda, in the Cerro del Rubi? On the hills of Regla and Guanabacoa, the botanists find at the foot of some scattered palm-trees, Jatropha pandur folia, J. integerrima Jacq., J. fragrans, Petiveria alliacea, Pisonia lorantho des, Lantana involucrata, Russelia sarmentosa, Ehretia Havanensis, Cordia globosa, Convolvulus pinnatifidus, C. calycinus, Bignonia lepidota, Lagascea mollis Cav., Malpighia

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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 Todos

A728    Beagle Library:     Luccock, John. 1820. Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the southern parts of Brazil: taken during a residence of ten years in that country, from 1808 to 1818. London: S. Leigh.   Text

COMMERCE Of RIO DE JANEIRO compared with that of BAHIA, FOR A.D. 1816. INWARDS. OUTWARDS. Rio de Janetro. Bahia. Rio de Janeiro. Bahia. Portuguese Vessels from Ports of Brazil 1062 290 862 214 Africa 43 21 56 37 Portugal and the Isles 78 75 57 37 River Plata 47 7 53 56 Southern Europe 3 18 1 16 Northern Europe 3 6 2 3 Asia 7 0 12 0 Havannah N. America 0 1 2 0 1243 418 1045 343 Foreign vessls British 113 57 93 52 Russian 6 0 0 0 Swedish 8 1 12 1 French 12 7 11 4 Dutch 14 2 9 3 North American 46

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the 13th, to Havre, loaded. In the 10th Quarter, One Dane sailed for China, in Ballast, and, in the same Quarter, One Do. arrived from Copenhagen, which, in the 11th Quarter, sailed for Monte Video in ballast. In the 12th Quarter, One German arrived from Bahia, and, on the 13th Quarter, sailed for Bremen loaded. In the 13th Quarter, One German arrived from Bremen, and sailed again for London loaded. In the 16th Quarter, One German arrived from Hamburgh, One Do. from Bahia, and One sailed for

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ternal habits of the cocoa genus; but it cannot be positively asserted that they all really belong to it, because we had not an opportunity of examining the flowers of all of them. Botanists will soon procure us more certain information on this subject from accurate observation. A. Species of Palms without thorns. 1. Cocos da Bahia, (cocos nucifera, Linn.) does not grow wild, but cultivated, from the Mucuri, that is from the 18th degree, northwards to Bahia and Pernambuco, very frequently on

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are partly sent on to Porto Seguro and Bahia. The forests on the Belmonte are the chief abode of the Botocudo tribe, which we have so often mentioned, and on whose account the river was formerly not to be navigated without danger. Some adventurers indeed at an earlier period proceeded up the river, in canoes made of barrigudo wood; but the Captain Mor, Jo o da Sylva Santos, was the first, who in 1804 ventured to sail up it to Villa do Fanado in Minas Novas. He drew up a detailed account of his

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British Trade. OUTWARDS. To Ports belonging to Britain. Independent States of S. America. Spanish Ports. Sundry detatcbed Porta. Brazilian. Qr. London. Liverpool. England. Guerasey. Jersey. Gibraltar. C. Good Hope. Jamaica. Buenos Ayres. Moate Video. River Plate. Patagonia. Barcelona. Cadis. Havannah. Peru. Trieste. Messina. Laghorn. Hamburgh. New York. India. Batavia. Holland. Whale Fishery. Maranbam. Pernambuco. Bahia. Lisbon. Rio Grande. 11 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

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which kept them near to us so long, and through a distance of seven hundred miles, was the brightness of the ship's copper; and that they left us suddenly, when near to the American coast, because they perceived the bottom of the ocean. A few hours after they were gone, we also conjectured that we could discern it, that it was naked and white; nevertheless we sailed two hundred miles afterwards, in a south-west course, before we saw the land a little north of Bahia; and then found that such was the

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is found in the buildings; they are generally of two stories, but the ranges are broken by some of three, and by others which have only a ground-floor, with the addition of a sort of attic in the roof The walls, as far as the covering of plaister and whitewash allowed us to judge, are well constructed of granite; the thresholds, door-posts, lintels, and window-frames, are of massy quartz or felt-spar, brought from Bahia in a state ready for use; the roofs are universally covered with

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cannot be mistaken; it is certainly Rio de Janeiro, but the enemy's vessels carry Dutch colours, and I know of no fact in the history of the place, to which this circumstance can possibly apply. I suspect that, by a little tissue of falsehood and flattery, to which the Caraocas are by no means averse, they intended to appropriate to themselves the honours of Bahia. The last division of the dome represents the burning of a large Dutch vessel; boats are towing her off from the rest of the shipping

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jerked Beef; all these articles are sent to Rio de Janeiro, only that Bahia shares with it the last mentioned. The vessels sailing from Rio Grand , in 1808, amounted to one hundred and fifty, [page] 18

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was, however, a want of combination in these movements; the two bodies could not support each other, and neither succeeded in drawing the Portuguese troops off from St. Pedro do Sul. Had that town fallen, the consequence would have been a want of provisions in the capital of Brazil, and perhaps also in Bahia. The Serro Largo was retaken on the third of January, 1817, and at the same time Lecor, who had remained nearly five months in Maldonado, left Artigas in his rear, marched upon Monte Video

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review did not take place, and that the circumstance produced a spirit among the parties which it would be very difficult to control. In the full exercise of such rancorous feelings, I left the troops in the year 1818. Connected with Military Affairs, are the defences of Rio; and while the Capital of Brazil remains near the Coast, the most important of these must be the Fleet. Since the year 1813, several very valuable vessels had been added to it, most of them built in Bahia, and one small

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Slaves, Implements of Husbandry and Mining, and a few Articles of Luxury belonging to the Table, Clothing, Furniture, and Parade. These were imported through Pernambuco, Bahia, and Rio, and created with these places some small degree of Internal Commerce, and some little Coasting Trade. But it is scarcely possible for persons, who have not paid close attention to the subject, to conceive how languid it was, how slow in its operations, and to what a great extent smuggling existed. The productions of

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present check, but will finally extirpate or civilize, every horde of Indians in its neighbourhood. The District of Bahia has been long known, and has attained nearly all the commercial advantages of which it is capable. Its Interior consists of a broad tract of sandy and arid country, not suitable for human habitation, and therefore affording but few means for the transit of goods to the rich districts of the Tocantines, which lie beyond it. This sandy tract, but little known in Europe, may

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Santo had more particularly suffered by them. In the year 1630 they sustained a severe defeat. In the sequel they were gradually extirpated, or subdued and reclaimed, whence arose the settlement on the Paraiba, which is now the richest and most flourishing district between Rio de Janeiro and Bahia. The whole tract is covered with detached fazendas and plantations; and on the south bank of the river Paraiba, which intersects this fertile plain, at the distance of about eight leagues from the sea, is

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a little cotton, c. It sometimes exports 54,500 alquieras of flour in a year, which, reckoning the alquiera at the moderate rate of five patacks or florins, makes 272,500 florins. This trade brings hither a considerable number of vessels from Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Capitania, and the other ports on the east coast: thirty or forty small vessels are sometimes lying here at once; and there are frequent opportunities to go, or send letters by the casqueiro to Rio. The vessels of