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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

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bour, others retiring, and leaving be-tween them deep recesses and glens, whichwere filled with villas. On our left was thetown of Rio, standing between several loftyeminences; not, like Rome and Constantinople,ascending over them, but the streets windingtheir way in the valleys below, and churchesand convents only crowning the hills above.In the bay were multitudes of ships of allnations, both of war and commerce; notcrowded together, as in our contracted rivers,but spread over the wide expanse of waters,and dotting the surface in all directions. Inthe distance were the Organ mountains, form-ing a singular back-ground to this picture.These are a range of granite pikes, bristlingup along the horizon, and piercing the cloudswith their long sharp summits, projected onthe sky like organ pipes in a vast cathedral,and hence deriving their extraordinary appel-lation. I had heard much of the beauty of thisharbour, but the reality far exceeded my con-ceptions. It could hardly be compared with
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NOTICES OF BRAZIL. 131 Constantinople, the character of both was sodifferent; but certainly in grandeur, extent,and romantic scenery, it far exceeded it. Itlooked like what it is likely to be, the great basinof a magnificent country, which nature intendedshould hereafter become the emporium of theworld. Among the objects of great interest thatstruck me, as connected with historical detail,was a fort on a small island lying between usand the town, called Villegagnon, a name re-calling to our recollection the important fact,that the first colonists of this magnificent partof the new world were protestants; and, hadthe man who bore it been worthy of his trust,it would now have been peopled by a raceof men who would long since have distin-guished it by the industry, activity, and enter-prize generally supposed to be connected withthe progress of the Reformation. Had thisattempt succeeded, and a reformed populationbeen then established in the country, with all thatspring and energy of exer

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