Brazil and Buenos Ayres, Volume 1J. Duncan, 1825 - Argentina |
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appearance Bahia banks beautiful birds Brazilian Buenos Ayres called Cape Frio capital capitania cattle Cazal chiefly church coast colony colour considerable cortes crown cultivated distance district Dutch Espiritu Santo Europe European extends fazenda feet forests formed frequently gold governor harbour Henderson hills History of Brazil horse houses hundred Indians inhabitants island Jesuits Lagoa dos Patos lake land leagues Lisbon Luccock Maranham Mawe miles Minas Geraes Monte Video mountains mouth mulattoes natives navigable nearly negroes northern Paraguay Paraïba Parana passed Paulistas Paulo Pedro Pernambuco plain Plata port Porto Porto Seguro Portugal Portuguese Prince Maximilian province Rio de Janeiro Rio Janeiro river road round royal sand Santos says Serra Serra do Mar side situated slaves southern Spaniards Spix streams Tapuyas town traveller trees tribes Uruguay valley vessels village whole wood
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Page 167 - ... trunk with outspread wings awaiting the approach of evening. Myriads of the most brilliant beetles buzz in the air, and sparkle like jewels on the fresh green of the leaves, or on the odorous flowers. Meantime, agile lizards, remarkable for their form, size, and brilliant colours...
Page 295 - ISC, 190. hats, made of plaited straw, or the leaf of the palm, and a woollen or cotton poncho, — a garment made of one large piece, with a hole in the middle, through which the head is thrust, and falling loosely before, behind, and over the arms. The poncho, if made of cloth, is frequently trimmed all round with velveteen, and lined with baize of some gay colour ; if of cotton, it is ornamented with a border of various colours, woven with the piece, and is of South American manufacture. Ordinary...
Page 108 - ... Benedictine, Franciscan, and Carmelite ; a Franciscan nunnery ; a nunnery of Theresans ; an hospice of the almoners of the Holy Land ; a misericordia, with its hospital; a foundling hospital, founded in 1738; (which, within sixty years from that period, received nearly 5000 infants;) and a recolhimento for female orphans born in wedlock and of white parents, where they remain till they are portioned off in marriage from the funds of this munificent institution ; together with some smaller monastic...
Page 137 - Brazilian myrtle) let drop a fragrant shower of snow-white blossoms; the crowns of the majestic palms wave slowly over the silent roof which they overshade, like a symbol of peace and tranquillity.
Page 91 - English colonies, there is hardly any political division of castes, and very few of those galling and degrading distinctions, which have been made by all other nations in the management of their colonies.
Page 88 - The colour produced from this wood, is greatly improved by a solution of tin in aqua regia, which, when mixed with the aqueous tincture, affords a beautiful precipitate of a purplish crimson, substituted sometimes for lake.
Page 32 - Having passed by these keepers you came into a quadrangle, planted with trees and watered by a silver fountain which spouted through four golden pipes. The gate of the palace was of copper; it was very small, and its bolt was received into the solid rock. Within, a golden sun was placed upon an altar of silver, and four lamps were kept burning before it day and night.
Page 8 - But from this adventure of the Portuguese, it appears that chance might have accomplished that great design which it is now the pride of human reason to have formed and perfected.
Page 165 - ... their pretty flowers blended with the singularly formed leaves of the theophrasta ; the conchocarpus ; the reed-like dwarf palms ; the brilliant spadix of the costus ; the ragged hedges of the maranta, from which a squamous fern rises; the magnificent stiftia, thorny solana, large flowering gardenias and...
Page 165 - ... (bind-weed), which descend from the highest summits of the trees, or closely twine round the strongest trunks, and gradually kill them ; lastly, those parasitical plants by which old trees are invested with the garment of youth, the grotesque species of the pothos and...