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All Saints Bay or Bahia De Todos Os San Tos

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ALL SAINTS BAY or BAHIA DE TODOS OS SAN TOS, a land-locked bay and natural harbour on the eastern coast of Brazil about 738m. (1,187km.) north-east of Rio de Janeiro. The bay is about 20M. wide and 23m. long with an entrance from the Atlantic about 2M. broad. The channel leading through this entrance is rather circuitous and varies with the seasons of the year. Detached breakwaters, one i,3ooyd. long and another about ,000yd. long, cause the water of the bay to be less disturbed by the winds. The controlling depth of the channel varies from 26 to 33 feet. On entering All Saints bay from the Atlantic, one is impressed with the beauty of the bay and the hills rising from the water's edge. On the western side of the peninsula separating the bay from the Atlantic, in 13° S. and 38° 3o' W., is Bahia or S5.o Salvador (pop. 35o,000), an important seaport and capital of the State of Bahia.

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