Espiritu Santo

Espiritu-Santo, a Brazilian province, having Bahia on the N., Rio de Janeiro on the S., and the Atlantic on the E., with a length of 260 miles, a breadth of 120, and an area of 17,312 square miles. There are several rivers flowing into the Atlantic, and the coast, where the climate is healthy and the soil fertile, is populous. The mountains and forests of the interior are inhabited by wild Indians, and are little known. The chief exports are sugar, rum, cotton, and dye-woods.