The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

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AMAZONIA AND LA PLATA.
" the best in the world." At any rate, it commands the highest price on the
Bahia market.
Beyond the important riverine port and military station of Jurupensen, 50
miles below Goyaz, follow at long intervals a few other little settlements, such as
Leopoldiiia, at the confluence of the VermeDio with the Araguay, and S. Joao
dasduas Barras at the confluence of the Araguay with the Tocantins. But S. Joao
de Araguaya, as it is also called, never can become an important riverside port,
the navigation being obstructed by numerous falls and rapids, both above and
below this station. Below the last (Itaboca) falls, where the united waters flow
with a tranquil navigable current, the Tocantins ceases to belong to Goyaz.
Here it enters the province of Para, which it traverses for the rest of its course
to the estuary.