Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . Cupula WublUih 1 2 Jiuhoragrsfi>rMrn of-War ?; .h,.i,„,,,.,,? /;?, MerchtrntVesseU 4 AmJniiti/r A*rJf i Wrselr .!?/. .. VallengoLRasux . 6, (ramooa 7 I urn/i . V .hum A /„...?,??/)./?/„,. ?i v >,/., ,),...? r,„.,-»,. THE SUGAR-LOAF, (ENTRANCE TO THE BAY OF RIO.) ipzil mil tlt^ §razi!tattjj. CHAPTER I. THE BAT OF BIO DE JANEIEO— HISTOEIC EEMINISCENCES—FIB8T SIGHT OF THE TEOPICS ENTEANCE TO THE HAEBOE NIOHT-SCENES IMPEESSIONS OF BEAUTY AND GBANDEUB—GAEDNEE AND STEWABT—THE CAPITAL OF BB


Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . Cupula WublUih 1 2 Jiuhoragrsfi>rMrn of-War ?; .h,.i,„,,,.,,? /;?, MerchtrntVesseU 4 AmJniiti/r A*rJf i Wrselr .!?/. .. VallengoLRasux . 6, (ramooa 7 I urn/i . V .hum A /„...?,??/)./?/„,. ?i v >,/., ,),...? r,„.,-»,. THE SUGAR-LOAF, (ENTRANCE TO THE BAY OF RIO.) ipzil mil tlt^ §razi!tattjj. CHAPTER I. THE BAT OF BIO DE JANEIEO— HISTOEIC EEMINISCENCES—FIB8T SIGHT OF THE TEOPICS ENTEANCE TO THE HAEBOE NIOHT-SCENES IMPEESSIONS OF BEAUTY AND GBANDEUB—GAEDNEE AND STEWABT—THE CAPITAL OF BBAZIL—DISTINC-TION OF EIO DE JANEIEO. The Bay of Naples, the Golden Horn of Constantinople, and the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, are always mentioned by the travelled tourist as pre-eminently worthy to be classed together for their extent, and for the beauty and sublimity of their scenery. The first two, however, must yield the palm to the last-named magnificent sheet of water, which, in a climate of perpetual summer, is enclosed within the ranges of singularly-picturesque mountains, and is dotted with the verdure-covered islands of the tropics. He who, 13 14 Brazil and the Brazilians. in Switzerland, has gazed from the Quai of Yevay, or from thewindows of the old Castle of Chillon, upon the grand panorama ofthe up


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