The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-29

OlOTlA Q1lls. covered with u6uOeoIlo Icsl-
dences and crowned with q pretty oc-
tagonal church which the imperial family
used to frequent. At Its foot is an untldy
public garden. and beyond the garden IS
q large, square ediice which was built
for q market, but is used as q
for the poor. aud is said to shelter q
thousand people. Now we enter the Rua
do Cattete, at the beginning of which
stands a large. one-storied private house
built In the Italian styl e. and backed by
extensive gardens. At each end of 1t are
two small. quare open courts. with spiral
stairs leading to the entrances. within
which are two marble ball-players. who
seem to be tossing q ball over the house
top. 1t was built by q Brazilian capitalist.
and is known as the "Palacete Cornelio."
just beyond Is the "palacete' of the Baron
de Nova Friburgo. fhe richest private
house In Rio, built of marble imported
from Lisbon and adorned with carvings,
paintings and statuary.
known as Largo do Machado the tramway
divides. and again. a couple of blocks
further on. near the new Methodist church,
it divides again. ushering us at length into
one of the most picturesque streets In the
world-the seml.clrcular Praia do
Botafogo. with beautiful residences
on one side, the quiet Iake-hke bay on
the other, with 'encircling hills and
mountains and avenues of royal palms. To
the left is the round-topped MOrrods VIVA.
y WIFI - u Oaas VIC
mighty Sugar-loaf. with q military barrack
on It's outside base. approachable only by
water. In q gap OF the hills on the right
are the ermel Notifications and military
school. built upon the site of the first
Portuguese settlement in Brazil. and down
on the beach is the great Pedro Second In
sane Asylum and the medical college. All
along the Prals de BotafogO are many no.
aOle private houses. beginning with that
Of the Barao de Cattete. and ending with
<ko @.,I m n ~ NJ. AdeA- SfnnlA nf
Rios oldest and most respected foreign
merchants. There are houses of marble and
stone, and of blue. white and yellow pOrce-
lain tiles. lnlald In quaint devices. There
are grounds decorated with polished globes
of blue. green and yellow glass. to mirror
the world as it passes by; huge gate
ways, guarded by carved dragons and lions.
and moist walls overrun by blossoming
q riot OF vegeta-
ton and a wealth of brilliant coloring.
AT THE GARDEN's
BY and by the city street becomes q coun-
try road. and we come nearer and nearer
to Corcovado, the colossal "Hunchback."
till at len 9Th 1T seems to stand directly
over us. a sheer precipice CT gray rock tow
ering sky ward two thousand feet. Wind
ing around the edge of q small salt lake
Lagoa Rodereigo de Frietas, which is sep
IdtCo tLO OhAy Nv q
sand. bank-we see on the right had many
interesting old Portuguese estates. laid out
in terraces and winding paths up the hill
tropical shrubs. Directly In front rises the
distant, square-topped GavIa, lifting its
weather-beaten face three thousand feet
above the valley; the seaward-looking
peaks of Dias lramos and the green mount
aims of Tiiucs. Soon the lax becomes a
hracKiah aWnmn Whara wild birds
are padding; then q jungle where wild
flowers perfume the air: then the
country road changes into q lane, barely
wide enough for the car track, and runs
into what appears to be a thicket of wild
bamboo and banana in the midst of which
a little fondita trestaurantl Is set on one
side and q very tall iron fence on the other.
Here we allght at q ponderOus gateway In
the iron paling. and find ourselves at once
in a manipulated, marble-paved room.
with ma bic benches ranged around It's
sides, where visitors may sit while waiting
for the return car. which passes every
twenty minutes on the way back to town.
This IL the vestibule or entrance to the
through 1t. one stops amazed at the first
sight of the w~orld-renowned avenue
at this gate and stretches away
across the garden to the foot of the mount
ain. a distance of half a mile or more. 1t
is impossible to give in words any idea of
the magnIficence of this living, arbOrescent
gallery. which surpasses anything of the
kind on the face of the globe, and is worth
coming ell the way to Brazil to SEGA col
whose graceful. bright-green capitals seem
to support q portion of the blue dome that
arches above. As one looks down the long
vista of columns-straight. firm and smooth
as though carved in stone. q dim vision of
some Egyptian temple rises to the imagina-
tiop-one feels as if monarchs had been
drawn mp in line to do him homage, or as
If he had been translated to another sphere
and this verdant gallery must lead to a
mansion Of the gods. The most blase trav-
ranks, impressed too deeply for words-as
at the tho first view Of Niagara, of a snow.
capped mountain. of q grand cathedral and
other sights which bring the souls of lE-
questionable people to their knees. what
ever may be the attitude of their bodies.
ETTING DOWN TO PARTICULARS.
To come down to figures. there are 15O
of those noble trees. the palma real
(Oresdoxa regia). planted thirty feet apart
in a double row. inolosing q wide gravel
path. The palms have an average height
of eighty feet, and an average diameter at
the base of three feet. their trunks have
grown as straight as by plumb-line, and
their lines are as regular as q mathemat-
ical device could make them. HiGh up In
the air their enormous feathery tufts are
in a perpetual tremor. shaken by every
breath of air. As an appropriate setting
to these masterpieces of nature the gar
den is surrounded by the widest of trop.
ical scenery. the giant trunks
you look upward to Incompatible blue
skies to near-b by mountains. to the sea. whose
murmur you can family hear. A shorter
alley of palms crosses the main one near
it's beginning. the two forming O gigantic
cross. About midway down the avenue is
q fountain, and here other avenues, scarce.
ly less splendid. branch off at right-angles,
lined with old mango trees ~(ManRuevias),
whose long arms. gnarled trunks and dense
interlocking foliage would alone distin-
guIsh this garden above any other.
But after the avenue Of palms everything
appears tame, and one Is hardly prepared
to do justice to what is probably the finest
collection of tropical flora in the world.
There are groves of cinnamon and Glove
trees. acres of tea shrubs from China and
Japan, myrtle trees and naples. pines and
carnphor trees. cacaO. bread fruit. "veaeta-
Bile butter" tho long, crooked fruit OF the
jaca that looks like the stuffed club Of the
parasite to the ~loftiest monarchs of Anna.
zOnian forests. Many trees from tropical
Asia aud Africa, as we'll a. from other
parts of the world. have found Q homo in
Brazil through the fundamentally of the
botanical garden. To the left of the
5 SsmSod ps'm; .h sssr' is /: q . f %9svd sfSs' 1 Of
sort for picnic parties. There are
ponds and pools. grottoea. cascades
and a hundred winding paths leading Ia
new surprises. The garden lies near the
sea shore. directly at the base of q spur oil
the serra ds C~arioca.. and forms part of an
experimental farm Lfazenda normal and
aRrionltnral achool IL had ifa ariain In The