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PORTUGUESE AMERICA.

Printing has been long practiced in the Portuguese
settlements; but, I believe, the press has been kept almost
solely for the use of the government. If any literary productions

were ever issued from it, I am unacquainted with
them.

From the intercourse between the United States and
Brazil, we may hope to obtain, at no distant period, the
history of printing in this part of South America.[1]