. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. 226 From the summit there is a magnificent view over an immense area of country, the whole Monte-Alegre-Erere highlands and the great Devonian plain being distinctly seen. I have reproduced from my note-book a little sketch of the Erere hills taken from the top of Tauajuri, because it sho-ws a line of hills extending westward be- yond Aracuri, apparently forming parts of the same The Devonian plain and serras of Erer6 from the Serra of Tauajuri. To the northward of the zone of highlands bordering the Ere
. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. 226 From the summit there is a magnificent view over an immense area of country, the whole Monte-Alegre-Erere highlands and the great Devonian plain being distinctly seen. I have reproduced from my note-book a little sketch of the Erere hills taken from the top of Tauajuri, because it sho-ws a line of hills extending westward be- yond Aracuri, apparently forming parts of the same The Devonian plain and serras of Erer6 from the Serra of Tauajuri. To the northward of the zone of highlands bordering the Erere plain on the north and west, the country is low, somewhat irregu- lar, though with but few hills, and uniformly covered with forest. Along the horizon, on the north-west, high, table-topped hills stretch along for many miles like a cordilheira. To the east of Tauajuri the country is low, but still considerably higher than the Amazonian bottom. Just east of the Monte-Alegre highlands these higher grounds do not come doAvn to the river, but their margin, once an old shore-line, describes a strong curve forming a sort of bay which has been silted up and converted into alluvial grassy campos, while, skirting the old shore, is a long, narrow, crescent-shaped lake, once a side-channel of the river. This alluvial bay and lake put one in mind of the campos and parana-merins of Taperinha, of which I hope to speak in another paper. From Avhat I have seen of the Amazonian valley in the province of Para, I am of the opinion that the greater part of the country gourd, or fruit of the Crescentia Cuyele (kuia-ete=c?/iapar excellence) Is cut in two and the inside pulp removed. When the rind is dry it is carefully scraped, both inside and out, and polished with the sandpaper-like leaves of the caimbe tree {Curalella). A little charcoal of the wood of the pao de Boia or Mututi is then scraped into the cuia, and, having been mixed with a few drops of the cumat6, is rubbed over the surface of t
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