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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...high, in lat. 21 14', is on the right bank of the Itababuana River. To the South of Francesa Island the coast diminishes in height, and at 4 miles S.S.W. from it is the mouth of the little River Itapemirim, lat. 20 58' A small sand islet lies before the entrance. At 5 miles East from the mouth Capt. Mouchez found a rocky shoal of 4 fathoms. In from lat. 21 9' to 21 12' there are four or five red cliffs, good land marks. They are called the Barreiros de Siry. It is said that a 5 fathom bank lies 3 miles East of these cliffs. About 7 miles S.S.W. from the islets Piuma, and at nearly 5 miles from shore, is a sand-bank of 4 fathoms, with 9 and 10 fathoms on each side of it; but shoaling gradually toward the land. Its length has been estimated at 1J mile long, N. and S., by one-quarter broad. The water on approaching and receding shoalens and deepens very abruptly. ' Off Point Murubu, in lat. 21 11', there is an appearance of breakers, at 2 miles from land. The river Itabapuana or Cabapuana, lat. 21 19', is wrongly named on the charts the Camapuan. It is only fit for small craft. To the South of the entrance are three low red cliffs, the last on the coast. They terminate 3 miles southward, at Point Retiro. From Point Murubu, in lat. 21 11', to Cape San Thome, in 22 2', the coast is generally a low sandy beach, thickly covered with brushwood, having here and there a stanted tree. The cape, as it is catted, terminates in a low sandy point; the country to a great extent within it is low, drowned, and intersected by many rivers and lakes. The soundings off Point Murubu are very irregular, 13 to 9 and 6 fathoms; the water thence deepens suddenly, with a hard, rocky bottom. S.E. from this part of the coast, 10 or 11 leagues off, there are 20 to 22...

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