Brazil And the Brazilians Portrayed in Historical And Descriptive Sketches
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There was one tree, half hidden LAGOA DE FREITAS.
by the dome-shaped inanqueira!<, that I often visited with peculiar emotions of pleasure. It was a small North American maple. As I looked upon that little tree, — an exotic in this distant land, where no wintrj' blasts would strip it of its foliage, where not even an autumnal frost would robe it in those gorgeous hues wni. , h the flowers of this summer clime hardly surpass, — I could sympathize with the Bedouin of the desert who, upon beholding the palm-tree in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris, was transported far over moun- tain and sea to the country of his nativity. The most surprising sight to the Northern stranger in the Botanical Gardens is the long avenue of the Pahna Eeal, (^Oreodoxa regia, ) which we enter from the great gate, and which, in its regularity, extent, and beauty, is 14 210 Brazil and the Brazilians.
unrivalled. It is a colonnade of natural Corinthian columns, -vrhose graceful, bright-green capitals seem to suj)port a portion of the blue dome that arches above.
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