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Identifier: fortyyearsinbraz00benn (find matches)
Title: Forty years in Brazil
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bennett, Frank
Subjects: Brazil -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Mills & Boon, limited
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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to international commerce—Tram-car service said to be thebest in the world—Restaurants—^Milk brought from MinasGeraes—Cost of living very high—The tax called DecimaUrbana —Suburbs much higher above the sea-level thanthe city—Botafogo—Larangeiras—Tijuca—Gavea—Copa Cab-ana—Nictheroy—National Museum formerly one of the ImperialPalaces—Enormous meteorite, Bendego, to be seen there—How it was brought to Rio—Amusing encounter with a stranger—His disparaging remarks anent the size of England—Mylast visit to Rio de Janeiro—The city quite transformed inappearance—Great improvements in the harbour—NationalSchool of Art—National Library—Portuguese Reading-room—Academy of Medicine and the Polytechnic School. RIO DE JANEIRO, the capital of the empire,or, as it now is, the repubhc, is better knownto Europeans, generally speaking, than the restof the country, and this chiefly on account of itsmagnificent harbour and its beautiful BotanicalGardens. •6
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RIO DE JANEIRO 67 The bay, which shares with Constantinople andSydney the distinction of being the most beautiful inthe world, excels these two, I think, in size. It ismore or less oval in form, and is seventeen miles inlength and fifteen at its greatest breadth, whilst thecoast has an extension of forty-five miles, approxi-mately. The entrance has a breadth of about 1,500metres with a depth of fifty-five metres whichdecreases and, in some of the sheltered creeks, is nomore than six or eight metres. Sr. Affonso Celsohas very aptly said of it that it is at once a bay, acollection of bays, an archipelago and a smallMediterranean sea.^ The most notable feature on entering is the PaodAssucar, or Sugar-loaf Mountain, so called onaccount of its conical shape. It stands there like asentinel mounting guard over the city, whilst thewide sweep of water with fair-sized islands dottedabout, and the thickly-wooded mountains in thebackground, form an exceedingly noble spectacle. Some of the islands

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