. Forty years in Brazil . AvENiDA Central, Brazil in Rubber Transport, River Xingu, Para. From Brazil in 1912. PUBLIC LIBRARIES 79 forward for improvements in the harbour of Riode Janeiro, and some had already been carried 1903 a vast and comprehensive project waselaborated and finally accepted by the Government,and on the 20th May of the same year a loan wascontracted for to put it into execution. The workwas started in May of the following year. People who were in Rio at the time when the oldhouses were demolished, to open out a way for thegrand new avenues, say it lo
. Forty years in Brazil . AvENiDA Central, Brazil in Rubber Transport, River Xingu, Para. From Brazil in 1912. PUBLIC LIBRARIES 79 forward for improvements in the harbour of Riode Janeiro, and some had already been carried 1903 a vast and comprehensive project waselaborated and finally accepted by the Government,and on the 20th May of the same year a loan wascontracted for to put it into execution. The workwas started in May of the following year. People who were in Rio at the time when the oldhouses were demolished, to open out a way for thegrand new avenues, say it looked as if the city hadbeen partially destroyed by an earthquake, butwhen I last beheld it a new and beautiful city wasemerging from the ruins of the old one. For the payment of the interest on the loan raisedfor the purpose of carrying out these improvementsand embellishments, a tax of ijper cent.,afterwardsincreased to 2 per cent., payable in gold, was leviedon all goods despatched in the Custom House of Riode Janeiro. The National School of Art and the NationalP
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