. The Brazilians and their country . SEEING RIO DE JANEIRO BY TRAMWAY 159 to be taken than the tram service starting at the Largode Carioca and climbing to Sylvestre on the moun-tain side. The crossing of the famous old aqueductthrough which Rio used to get its water carries one highabove the houses of the immediate neighbourhood, andafterwards ^\inds about the leafy hills amid pleasantvillas with ever recurring snap-shot views of the citylying below. It is in connection with this route that thenature-admirer can take the Corcovado Railway, one ofthe most fascinating of all mountain railroads,
. The Brazilians and their country . SEEING RIO DE JANEIRO BY TRAMWAY 159 to be taken than the tram service starting at the Largode Carioca and climbing to Sylvestre on the moun-tain side. The crossing of the famous old aqueductthrough which Rio used to get its water carries one highabove the houses of the immediate neighbourhood, andafterwards ^\inds about the leafy hills amid pleasantvillas with ever recurring snap-shot views of the citylying below. It is in connection with this route that thenature-admirer can take the Corcovado Railway, one ofthe most fascinating of all mountain railroads, two andone third miles in length, carrjdng one through primevalforests which seem little changed since the foot of manwas first heard sounding in this Brazilian wilderness ofexuberant growths. The road takes the sight-seer up thesteep mountain side 2,180 feet, landing him only about130 feet below the precipitous smmnit of the world-re-nowned Hunchback or Corcovado peak. Near thesummit there has been constructed an hotel whose situa
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