. Around and about South America. ceiling remains as it was painted by the Jesuits, and thecolors, though of peculiar tints, are still quite bright. Thelibrary is used only for consultation—a long table, for the useof readers, occupying the center of the room. On the sideof the cathedral opposite the library is the medical school,with three hundred students. It has a good library, exami-nation-hall, and class-rooms. A hospital, under charge ofthe Sisters of Mercy, adjoins. The theatre, which is nearmy hotel, is not a bad-looking edifice inside, with its fourtiers of boxes, and large central bo
. Around and about South America. ceiling remains as it was painted by the Jesuits, and thecolors, though of peculiar tints, are still quite bright. Thelibrary is used only for consultation—a long table, for the useof readers, occupying the center of the room. On the sideof the cathedral opposite the library is the medical school,with three hundred students. It has a good library, exami-nation-hall, and class-rooms. A hospital, under charge ofthe Sisters of Mercy, adjoins. The theatre, which is nearmy hotel, is not a bad-looking edifice inside, with its fourtiers of boxes, and large central box for the president of theprovince. It has also an extensive foyer, with paintings byBrazilian masters, and you may step from it upon a marble-paved portico commanding a splendid sweep of the bay andocean. Directly in front of the theatre is a small marblestatue of Christopher Columbus, with ornamental water-basins from which the negroes are all day busily engaged infilling their little barrels. Below the theatre, at the bottom. TEE SECOND CITY OF BRAZIL. 3H of the bluff, stands the Jesuit church, built of white marblebrought from Lisbon. The Public Garden of Bahia is situ-ated upon the bluff, a short distance south of the city. It isat present in very bad order. There is little attempt at land-scape gardening. It is filled, however, with huge mango-trees, and contains many fine palms and odd-looking tropicalplants, of which I do not know the names. At the cornernext the bay is a marble-paved terrace, commanding splendidviews of the neighboring bay and distant ocean. There aretile-covered and shell-ornamented settees, statuary, and urns,all of fine quality. Promenading here on breezy afternoons,to the music of one of the military bands, the ladies andgentlemen of Bahia present a very animated and attractivepicture. With the intention of seeing something of the interior, Ileft Bahia at noon, on the 20th, for the town of Cachoeira,across the bay and at the head of navigation on
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