- CAP. I
- pg. 1
- linha 13
With the exception of the regions about the Bay of Bahia and about Rio and Santos.
- CAP. I
- pg. 1
- linha 15
This is not true in a geologic sense. Branner’s map showing the relief of the ocean’s botton along this coast (The Stone Reefs of Brazil) shows that the old coast line is now far off at sea. The configuration of the region from near Victoria to Santos shows also that there has been a recent depression of the coast and a corresponding invasion by the sea. On the other hand the growth of the coral reef north of Rio shows a slow but constant encroachment of the land upon the sea.
- CAP. I
- pg. 2
- linha 3
The precarious nature of the river bars is due chiefly to the varying volume of the streams and these varying volumes are due to the fluctuating rainfall in the regions where the streams rise. A river like the S. Francisco has water enough at all seasons to keep its mouth open and clean of sand, but the weaker streams have water enough to keep their mouths open only in times, of enchentes. At such times these weaker streams serve as ports and harbours, but when the dry season comes the streams diminish in volume, and the waves of the sea are able to throw the sands back into the stream mouths and to choke them up. Ships entering the mouths of these rivers during the season of the “enchentes”, sweep aside the obstructions thrown across the mouths of the streams by the waves. I have known this to happen at Aracajú.
- CAP. I
- pg. 4
- linha 29
The Serra do Espinhaço is an aged and respectable myth so far as north-eastern Bahia is concerned. The Serra de Jacobina which was formely regarded as a part of the Serra do Espinhaço runs in an almost straight line from Jacobina to Villa Nova or Bomfim.
At this last place the serra bends toward the northwest and becoming gradually lower it disappears entirely just
