Around and about South America . erly breeze, were covered with an enormous fleet ofsteamers and merchant-ships. Lighters and other boats werebusy carrying freight and passengers to and from the skirted the eastern shore of the great Governors Island—a much larger island than its New York namesake, andvery different in appearance. It is undulating and wooded,with many pretty little bays and villages, and scattered fac-tories and dwelling-houses. To our right were numeroussmall islands, mostly uninhabited, and with their tall palmsand other trees all bent in one direction, thus plain
Around and about South America . erly breeze, were covered with an enormous fleet ofsteamers and merchant-ships. Lighters and other boats werebusy carrying freight and passengers to and from the skirted the eastern shore of the great Governors Island—a much larger island than its New York namesake, andvery different in appearance. It is undulating and wooded,with many pretty little bays and villages, and scattered fac-tories and dwelling-houses. To our right were numeroussmall islands, mostly uninhabited, and with their tall palmsand other trees all bent in one direction, thus plainly indicat-ing the course of the most prevalent wind. There seemedeverywhere a great depth of water, as we frequently passedwithin fifty feet of an island. The Organ Mountains, extend-ing along the northern side of the bay, were veiled in mist, andwe could see only the lower and nearer hills, covered with a richvegetation, and several of them crowned by a church, a con-vent, or a farm-house. Leaving Governors Island, we headed. ENVIRONS OF RIO. 249 directly north to the station of the railway, called Maua, inhonor of the viscount of like name, who has in many waysgreatly helped the material progress of Brazil. Maua istwelve miles from Rio, and is simply a landing-place for thesteamer, with the buildings of the railway service. A trainof four cars awaited us. The cars were fitted with trans-verse benches made of straw, a side door admitting to eachbench. The locomotives used are made in Philadelphia, thecars are of English make. The steamer passengers tilled thetrain. They appeared to be mostly business men, thoughthere were also some ladies and children. We were quicklywhisked eleven miles across a forest-clad plain, to the foot ofthe mountains, where our train was divided into two, run onthe Riggenbach system. The road appears to mount directlyupward through a sort of valley in the ridge, with very littleturning, and with no specially steep slopes. The speed isgreater than t
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