The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-04-30
NUMBER 48
Brazil,

The following is from letter from Gan
A. :. Hawthorne, now in Brazil. written to
private friend 10 Alabama.
suppose you would like IN kno,v ,,hot
sort OF place have selected for our future
nome. VIII try to tell you. The lands
nave selected front upon the Belmont river
SIX (, miles, and run back from the river two
miles From the rivers edge, the land
gradually rises until it reaches an elevation
OF at least two-hundred feet, when it stretch
es away for miles, one vast elevated Main
covered with the tallest, the straigbtest and
tue most magnificent timber that I evar
saw Some of this timber is the most vain.
able IN the world There was formerIv !.
large amount of rosewood ON these lands
put near the river most of it has been cut
OH and shipped away. Still found one
Tree an the land which have selected that
is large enough to make all the furniture
the families would need, and would be
worth to day IN the city of New York. 80.
900 to $3, 900. There are great many
other kinds of timber on thess lands thai
are considered more valuable than the rose.
wood ~ '''~
The lands are rich, you NAV rest assured
Of that-as rich as the dscaying foliage Of
forty centuries can make them. And the
enormous crops that grow upon them l. |
can scarcely restrain myself from shouting
aloud when think of this wonderful coun-
try, which, as believe, has been merciful.
~ reserved by the kind Benefactor for the
home and hnal resting place of our oppresx.
ca people. DO you want good fruit =? In
no portion OF Brazil, or of the babitable
globe, can yen find better oranges. bananas
and pine apples than grow here in the prov
lnce OF Bahia; aud there are twenty other
Kinds OF fruit even more delicious than thosa
| nave named, whose name even never
heard OF until came to Brazil, that are
growing and rlpening all the year Do you
want country that will produce all tue
great staples of the world, and produce
them to perfection Well, the province Of
Bahia comes nearer filling the bin than any
country have yet seen. Sugar, coffee, cot
ton, tooacco rice ana corn, gov here to
perlectian' Near the coast it may be too
wet Tor short staple cotton, but after Ieay-
ing the coast hundred or more miles, it
grows magnificently. But none of these
Things would have moved me, or caused
me 10 select the section of country have
had not been convinced, beyond all doubt,
that the country was healthy fit is not
so then | am the worst deceived man unon
earth. There is not golIon of stagnant
watsr In ten miles Of where shall build
my house nor has there been. nor will
there ever 90 But on contrary, the whole
track is chequered here and there with the
most beautiful brooks and rivuIets that
ever saw III my life They glide over beds
OF beautiful white sand gravel, and their
waters are as pure and as delicious to the
taste as those that trickle and murmur at
the foot OF the Blue Ridge itself In no
land or country have | ever sean or drank
better water. These streams afford snf.
ncient water to turn any amount of machin-
cry Iiias we may need IN fact, every man
may have him mill, if he so desires. Well
then' II upon this vast elevated plain, with
the blessed trade winds forever tanning our
cheeks, and the pure and delicious waters
gliding past our dwellings; if, with the
forests Astounding in game, the river with
hsh, and the earth groaning beneath its
precious load OF staple products, vegetables
and delicious fruits-if, with all these adj
vantages, we do not enjoy good health, then
despair of ever finding a place where we
eau.
As to climate, the Thermometer never
rises above ninety, aud never goes below
sixty negroes The nights are very cool
| always cover myself with blanket when
! can get one. | have not suffered one
tenth part as much with the heat since
have been in Brazil as ! should have suffer
ed during the summer season in any por
ton of the United States. su