Under the Southern cross in South America . manifests His power in theappealing beauty as well as in the suljlimity of His creations. At the entrance of the harbor to our left rose the famous Pao deAssucar, or old Sugar Loaf Mountain, a conical pile of almost baregranite towering up to a height of 3,000 feet. This hill has oftenbeen pictured and is talked of all over the world. It is very steepand can be scaled at but one point, and there by only the boldestclimbers. Beyond, and hanging over the city, as it were, toweredthe still loftier Mount Corcovado (the Hunchback), with its peakseeming to
Under the Southern cross in South America . manifests His power in theappealing beauty as well as in the suljlimity of His creations. At the entrance of the harbor to our left rose the famous Pao deAssucar, or old Sugar Loaf Mountain, a conical pile of almost baregranite towering up to a height of 3,000 feet. This hill has oftenbeen pictured and is talked of all over the world. It is very steepand can be scaled at but one point, and there by only the boldestclimbers. Beyond, and hanging over the city, as it were, toweredthe still loftier Mount Corcovado (the Hunchback), with its peakseeming to pierce the sky. Next appeared Gavia (the Topsail),with almost perpendicular sides and ilat, table-like top. Fartherstill the eye caught the bold outlines of the Dois Irmaos (TwoBrothers), .fantastically formed piles rising to a great heightIndeed, mountain after mountain extended away to the sky-line, andthe modern city spread out like an ancient Rome over its amphi-theater of hills and intervening valleys, resting on its eternal founda-. AN OLD DWELLING ON CASTLE HILL, RIO
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