File:Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829 (1830) (14800614423).jpg

Identifier: noticesofbrazili01wals (find matches)
Title: Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Walsh, R. (Robert), 1772-1852
Subjects: Brazil -- Description and travel Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Description and travel Brazil -- History
Publisher: London, F. Westley and A. H. Davis
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
itherto concealed it, intolight, and tumbles with a copious cataract onthe summit of a ridge of lower hills, about threemiles from the city. The water comes downpure, limpid, and cold, over a ledge of graniterock, in a broad sheet, into a natural reservoir;and, from hence, in the year 1719, it was led byan aqueduct, constructed by Albuquerque, thecaptain-general of the province, along the ridge,to the convent of Santa Theresa. Nothing canbe conceived more picturesque and beautiful,than the road formed to conduct this water. Itis a green level avenue of considerable breadth,winding its way through primeval woods overthe before inaccessible ridges, on the summitlevel of these romantic hills, forming in differentplaces artificial terraces and platforms; whencethe traveller looks down from his airy height,on each side of him, on some of the mostlovely views in nature. Beside him is the watergurgling along in its stony channel, coveredabove, but open at intervals, to afford him the r —r~
Text Appearing After Image:
V W ..d/oc d^l Vfl^kUtock IiiJwci ^(piDlEaDllTT f*nTitad.Ti>v G.W. t.aiUder, 14Jatem■ at m- Re;<a- NOTICES OF BRAZIL. 499 means of using it; here he sees it eddying inbroad gianite reservoirs, presenting the mostcool and refreshing object that can be conceived.Near Santa Theresa, where I often chmbed totake a morning or evening walk, is one of theseartificial terraces; it passes a valley which opensto the sea, and looks down on a part of the city;and I believe I may say, without exaggeration,that there is not in the world so noble a com-bination of art and nature, as the prospect itpresents. From hence, over a magnificent arcade, thewater is conducted across the valley to theopposite hill of S. Antonio. This arcade wascompleted in 1750, by order of John V., byGomez Andrade, captain-general of the province.It is constructed of two ranges of arches, whichrise from the ground, one over the other, to theheight of eighty palms; the lower extends tothe length of 100, but the upper 1

Note About Images