Speaking generally, a range of hills, known as the Western Ghats, runs down the coast, at places rising in splendid bluffs and precipices from the water's edge, at others retreat moun- i n inland, and leavin g a flat fertile strip of to o m.
The first high land met in ascending the river is on the north bank, opposite the mouth of the Xingu, and extends for about 1 s o m.
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Its north-eastern extremity, Cape Sidero, is distant about 1 z o m.
