Araguay, a large river of Brazil, rising in the Sierra Sciadia, and flowing 1000 miles northward, till, at San Joao, it joins the Tocantins, which again, after a northerly course of 300 miles more, mingles its estuary with that of the Amazon round the Isle of Marajo.
Araguay
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 370
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