Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Volume 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ... the height of the falls of water. For further particulars of this river, its navigation and fish, see Francisco. The next in size is the river Itapicura, which discharges its waters between the mouth of the Rio S. Francisco and Cape St. Antonio, at nearly an equal distance from each. Its length may amount to nearly 25 0 miles; but it is only navigable for a short distance and for small craft. The adjacent country belongs to the sertoes, and is only fit for breeding catlle. The most important river of Bahia is the Paraguassu or Pcruaguacu, which rises in the centre of the sertoes, and forms a few cataracts before it descends to the Reconcave. It begins to be navigable at Cochoeira, above which town rocks impede the navigation. Its lower course lies through the most fertile and best cultivated district of the Reconcave, where nearly all the sugar and tobacco exported from Bahia is collected. The whole course of the river may be about 200 miles. The other rivers of the Reconcave are the Iaguaripe, the Serigy or Serzipe, the Sarahary, the Piraji, the Matuin, and the Pitanga. With the exception of the Iaguaripe, which runs nearly 100 miles, and is navigable for large barks for twenty miles, these rivers are small streams, and only accessible to boats as far as the tide runs up. The same observation is applicable to the rivers which enter the sea to the north of Point Mutta; among which the most considerable are the Jiquie, the Acarahy, and Marahu. The largest of them has not a course exceeding sixty miles. The rivers which enter the ocean to the south of Point Mutta do not differ much from the former, except that they rise at a much greater distance from the coast, the course of the larger streams being 150 miles and upwards. The most considerable are the Rio d...