Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . n Italy, says of the narrowthoroughfares of Pompeii, As each vehicle must have occupiedthe space between the curbstones, we are left without any meansof conjecturing what expedients were resorted to, or what police-regulations were in force, when two carnages, moving in differentdirections, met each other. If this accomplished author hadvisited Rio de Janeiro previous to his excursion to the buried citiesof Magna Grecia, the mystery would have been solved. In thenarrow Euas Ouvidor, Eosario, Hospicio, Alfandega, S.
Brazil and the Brazilians : portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches . n Italy, says of the narrowthoroughfares of Pompeii, As each vehicle must have occupiedthe space between the curbstones, we are left without any meansof conjecturing what expedients were resorted to, or what police-regulations were in force, when two carnages, moving in differentdirections, met each other. If this accomplished author hadvisited Rio de Janeiro previous to his excursion to the buried citiesof Magna Grecia, the mystery would have been solved. In thenarrow Euas Ouvidor, Eosario, Hospicio, Alfandega, S. Jose, andothers, carriages and omnibuses never meet; and so admirable arethe police-regulations that no mistakes ever occur. At the cornerof each of these streets where it is crossed by another, we seepainted, with great distinctness, an index immediately under thename of the street. Thus, two of the streets mentioned above areadjacent to and parallel with each other, and are crossed by theEuas Direita and Quitanda. Upon their Eua Direita corners webehold the following :—. Now, if I am in a carriage at the point where the Euas Direita andEosario cross each other, and I wish to visit a shop at the cornerof the latter street and the Eua Quitanda, although it is more directfor me to ascend by the Eua do Eosario, yet my Jehu knows that 40 Brazil and the Brazilians. if he should go contrary to the index he would be subjected to aheavy fine and forfeiture of certain privileges as a coachman. Hetherefore whirls through the Direita, up the Rua do Ouvidor, andalong the Quitanda, travelling the three sides of the square, andthus avoiding all collision. Eua da Quitanda. Bua Direita.
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