Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . their basehas often reminded me of the observations of Mr. Hillard in regardto Naples and Edinburgh, Avhen he says, The works of mans handsare subordinate to the grand and commanding features of naturearound and above them: . . the magnificent lines and sweepsof the landscape eat up the city itself. When I gazed from the craggy cliff of Inga upon the rollingsurf beneath,—the graceful lake-like Bay of Jurujuba on our left,the islet of Boa Viagem before us, crowned with its picturesquechapel, dear to mariners and kiss
Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . their basehas often reminded me of the observations of Mr. Hillard in regardto Naples and Edinburgh, Avhen he says, The works of mans handsare subordinate to the grand and commanding features of naturearound and above them: . . the magnificent lines and sweepsof the landscape eat up the city itself. When I gazed from the craggy cliff of Inga upon the rollingsurf beneath,—the graceful lake-like Bay of Jurujuba on our left,the islet of Boa Viagem before us, crowned with its picturesquechapel, dear to mariners and kissed by the breeze-swayed palm-tree, and as with silent wonder I beheld far across the water thegiant groupings of the Pao de Assucar, the Tres Irmaos, the wide-topped Gavia, the columnar Corcovado, and the distant Tijuca,—I could realize the emotions of the same polished and forciblewriter when acknowledging the utter impossibility of describingthe Italian scene to which the Brazilian landscape is equal inbeauty and superior in sublimity. What Mi. Hillard has said of. The View from Inga. 193 the glorious environs of Naples is doubly true of the view fromInga :—What words can analyze and take to pieces the parts anddetails of this matchless panorama, or unravel that magic web ofbeauty into which palaces, villas, forests, gardens, the mountainsand the sea, are woven ? What pen can paint the soft curves, thegentle undulations, the flowing outlines, the craggy steeps, and thefar-seen heights, which, in their combination, are so full of grace,and, at the same time, expression ? Words here are imperfect in-struments, and must yield their place to the pencil and the no canvas can reproduce the light and color which play aroundthis enchanting region. No skill can catch the changing hues ofthe distant mountains, the star-points of the playing waves, thefilms of purple and green which spread themselves over the calmwaters, the sunsets of gold and orange, and the aerial ve
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