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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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o on one side, and to S. Christovao on the other, forming a cidade nova; and when the area within these limits is filled up with houses, the city of Rio will be as extensive as any in Europe. Nor is this at all improbable, at no very great distance of time. Already, in the memory of persons residing there, the most extensive and almost incredible accessions have been made to the city;—the whole of the space about the Campo de Santa Anna was a stagnant marsh;it is now drained, and covered with streets;—from the hill of the Gloria to the river Catete, was a sandy plain; it is now a large district of the town, full of houses;—the Mata Cavallos* was a rugged thicket, so called from its fatiguing horses ; it is now a fine and extensive street;—and the Vallongo and its vicinity, since rendered infamous as the slave-market of the province,was not then in existence. The present extent * Literally, kill-horse.— Assim chamada por ser Imma vereda cheiade barrancos, e que muito can^^ava os animaes.
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S. Side of the Rocio or Praca da Constituicao, NOTICES OF BRAZIL. 459 of the city may be estimated from the length of the streets. From the bridge of Catete to the convent of S. Bento, is a continued avenue of houses^ deviating a little from a right hne of nearly four miles. The style of building, however,is susceptible of great improvement. The houses in general are erected without any regard to uniformity, either in size or plan. The Rocio,or square, in which the theatre stands, is a remarkable instance of this; there are not to be seen in it two edifices of the same shape or dimensions. The great impediment to the salubrity and increase of the town ^^dthin convenient distances,is the steep hills which every where obstruct the line of streets. Some of these, however, are mounds of clay, which it would not be impossible to level, at least to an inclined plane, sufficiently accessible, for streets to pass over them.This is particularly the case with the hill of S. Antonio, which rises like a vast protuberance between the most populous parts of

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