The towns of this province are,

Seregipe in the eastern part.
St. Amaro
St. Luzia
Itabaianna
Villa Nova
Propiha in the western part.
Lagarto
Thomar

Seregipe, or St. Christovam, capital of the province, the residence of its governor and ouvidor, and having the title of a city, is well situated upon an elevation near the river Paramopama, which is an arm of the Vazabarris, eighteen miles from the sea, but does not surpass a town in a state of mediocrity. It has a convent of St. Franciscans, another of slippered Carmelites, and two Terceira orders attached to them; a chapel of Our Lady of Rozario, for the blacks; another of Amparo, for the mulattoes; a house of misericordia, a good town house, and a large bridge. All the public edifices are of stone. It has royal professors of the primitives and Latin, and abundance of good water. The orange, mango, and banana trees grow in its vicinity. Sumacas come up the river as far as this place to take in sugar and some cotton. This city, which was destroyed by the Dutch on the 25th of December, 1637, eight sugar works then in the province sharing the same fate, had its commencement upon the left margin and two miles above the embouchure of the Cotindiba, where yet are the ruins of the church called St. Christovam. It was removed from thence to a site between the river Poxim and the Cotindiba, situated at an equal distance from its first foundation and the place where it now stands.

St. Amaro, so called from the patron of its mother church, is a small town, thinly populated, and without commerce, although well situated and enjoying salubrious air, about one mile north of the confluence of the rivers Seregipe and Cotindiba.

Five miles west of it, the aldeia of Moruim, in the extremity of an arm of the Seregipe, is the depôt for a considerable quantity of sugar cases, and has a small market on Saturdays.

St. Luzia, agreeably situated upon a height near the river Guararema, (uniting itself eight miles lower with the Rio Real,) is inconsiderable, has a church dedicated to the same saint, a chapel of the Lady of Rozario, and exports the productions of the surrounding country.

Ten miles distant from it, the povoaçao of Estancia, the most populous and commercial of the whole province, without excepting the capital, is situated in a plain upon the left margin of the river Piauhy, abounding with excellent water, and has a chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe, another of Rozario, and a bridge over the river. It is eighteen miles from the ocean, and the sumacas which enter by the bar of the Rio Real anchor in front of it, and export various articles of merchandise.

Itabaianna, situated in the vicinity of the serra of the same name, having a church of St. Antonio, is a small town, and celebrated for the race of small horses, bred in its extensive district, where cattle are also reared, as well as various necessaries of life.

Villa Nova de St. Antonio is agreeably situated, upon an eminence refreshed with fine breezes, upon the St. Francisco, on the opposite side, and two miles below Penedo. It has a good church, a royal professorship of Latin, and in its vicinity quarries of grindstone. In its district, which extends to the sea, cattle are bred and various productions cultivated. Two parishes of Indians are within its precincts, with the title of missions.

Propiha, originally called Urubu de Baixo, created a town in 1800, is twenty-five miles above the preceding, upon the margin of the same river, between two lakes of great disproportion; the smaller, of a circular figure and sixty fathoms in diameter, may hereafter be in the centre of the town, when it has experienced that augmentation of which its advantageous situation renders it so susceptible. It is near a valley opened by the diversifying hand of nature across a plain, appearing more like a human operation, and by which the river at all times extends an arm to the centre of a campinha of more than eight miles in length, and of proportionate width, that becomes a large and handsome lake, abounding with fish during the period of the floods. It has a market every week, where its inhabitants provide themselves with those necessaries which the sterility of its environs denies them. The church, which was formerly a chapel of St. Antonio, besides being the only place of public worship in the town, is very small and poor. The western limits of its district are the same as those that bound the province. The principal revenue of the camara is the product of the public sale of fish, which enter periodically into the temporary lake, the mouth of the valley being barricadoed with mats of cane, to prevent their return to the river with the receding waters.