. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 60 Miles. With the Paraguay, either through lateral creeks or broad passages. Such are lakes Uberaba, Gaiba, Mandiore, and Caceres, which swarm with " hundreds of thousands " of the Jacare crocodile. Some are freshwater basins fed exclusively by the river ; but others are old depressions formerly filled by the marine waters, and still preserving saline incrustations which give them a brackish taste. Towards the centre of the great depression the Paraguay is joined by the Cuyaba, with its S. Lourenco tributary, called also the Rio dos Porrudos from
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 60 Miles. With the Paraguay, either through lateral creeks or broad passages. Such are lakes Uberaba, Gaiba, Mandiore, and Caceres, which swarm with " hundreds of thousands " of the Jacare crocodile. Some are freshwater basins fed exclusively by the river ; but others are old depressions formerly filled by the marine waters, and still preserving saline incrustations which give them a brackish taste. Towards the centre of the great depression the Paraguay is joined by the Cuyaba, with its S. Lourenco tributary, called also the Rio dos Porrudos from the Indians of that name, who protected themselves with a kind of sack from the bite of the voracious piranha fish. Below the confluence these waters still wander over the level plains in a labyrinth of creeks, channels, false rivers, and lateral branches all the way to the junction of the Taquary and Miranda, descending
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