Twenty-five miles to the east-south-east of Braganca, and the same distance from the sea, is the parish of St. Joze de Cerzedello, upon the right margin of a small river. Thirty miles to the south-south-west of Braganca, and eighty to the east of the capital, is the small town of Ourem, upon the right bank of the Guama. It is ornamented with a church dedicated to the Espirito Santo, and its inhabitants cultivate the necessaries of life.
Vigia, an ancient town, and for some time considerable and flourishing whilst the depository of a great quantity of cocoa and coffee, brought thither from the adjacent country, is fifty miles north-north-east of the capital, upon the margin of the Para or Tucantins. The Jesuits had a college here, and the Mercenaries an entertaining-house. Its primitive and proper name is St. Jorge dos Alamos. The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Nazareth, and the inhabitants are agriculturists and fishermen.
Cintra is a small town, fifty miles west-north-west of Braganca, seventy north-east of Para, and fifteen east of Villa Nova, pleasantly situated at the mouth of the river Maracana, of which it formerly had the name. Its surrounding country is appropriated to various branches of agriculture; the church is dedicated to the Archangel St. Miguel, and its inhabitants, who are diminishing, cultivate little more than the necessaries of life.
In the vicinity, and north-east of Cintra, is the aldeia of Salinas, with some regularity, and in a very agreeable district, having a place of worship dedicated to Nossa Senhora do Socorro.
Collares, formerly a middling town, and well supplied, is forty miles north-north-east of the capital, upon an island six miles in length from north to south, with proportionable width, and separated from the continent by a narrow strait. It has only one church of the Lady of Rozario, and its environs are partially appropriated to the production of coffee, cocoa, and the necessaries of life common to the country.
Twelve miles south-south-east of Point Tigioca, and sixty north-east of the capital, is Villa Nova d’el Rey, upon the margin, and a very little above the embouchure of the Curuca, at the bottom of a bay. Its inhabitants, for the main part Indians, are fishermen, and cultivators of mandioca, Indian corn, rice, cocoa, and coffee, which do not remove them from a state of poverty, although the soil is of great fertility, and worthy of a more active and industrious population. It has a church of Our Lady of Rozario.
Gurupy, advantageously situated upon the banks of the bay of the same name, was created a town in 1671, and became for some time rather flourishing, whilst the capital of a small Capitania, and visited by the coasting-vessels from Maranham to Para. Its anchorage-place has diminished in depth, and agriculture is declining from the want of whites as well as Africans.
Bayao, a small Indian town, with some whites on the eastern margin of the Tucantins, and thirty-five miles above Cameta, is well supplied with fish, and the rendezvous of canoes from Goyaz. It has a church of St. Antonio, and the inhabitants cultivate cocoa, coffee, cotton, rice, mandioca, divers fruits, and hortulans. Its very advantageous situation, and the wide field for agricultural improvement, promise it a considerable augmentation.
Thirty-five miles further, upon the same margin of the Tucantins, and eighteen below the fort of Alcobaca, is the aldeia of Pederneira, inhabited by christianized Indians, who cultivate the same articles as the preceding town. Here the river begins to be thickly strewed with islands to the capital. In this district there is yet the small town of Conde upon the margin of the Tucantins, twenty miles to the south-west of Para; also Beja, a place of the same order, and seven miles south of Conde; and Abayte, an insignificant place, eight miles south of Beja; all three are upon an island formed by the rivers Tucantins, Muju, and Igarape Mirim, whose territory is appropriated to several branches of agriculture.
Arcos, situated upon the great bay of Turyvassu, is an aboriginal town, and the insufficiency of its inhabitants retards the progress of agriculture, to which its fertile soil is so favourable. Upon this coast, also, are the parishes of St. Joze de Piria, and Vizeu, inhabited by Indians; and in the adjacent lands of the river Guamma are those of Caraparu, Bujaru, Anhangapy, Irituya, St. Miguel da Cachoeira, and St. Domingos, in the angle of the mouth of the river Capim.