Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-26

land 200 to s6o miles. This region in- c cludes the seuthefnmost states of Rio [ Grande do Sol Santa Catharina, Pa
 rama, Sac Paulo, Rio de Janiero, Es- r
 perita Santo. and Minas Geraes. North
 along the coast is BraziIs black
 belt" where negro eH-slaves and their descendants are more numerous than elsewhere in the country. Inland are l5 .. the Indians many of hem Hnciviiized. Braxifs temperate region along the South Atlantic coast is the region to which manufacturing snter H-ise is l largely confined. just as it was to our own North Atlantic coast a half cen- , tury ago. As yet manufacturing plays only an unimportAnt part in the eo4n- try's life, but textile factories tam neries and meat packing plants, as 1 well as various other industrial estAb- lishmeats are on the increase. This l portion of Brazirs map is peppered with cities and towns and Is covered with a close network of railroads. Itt is in this cIimaticaily delightful re- l zion of Brazil that Is developed the 1 country's chief industry-eoffee grow 1 ing. Thousands of square miles are | | covered by the orchards of trees which | make Brazil the foremost coffee na- ton. Brazil Is not backward In railroad l eontructien, having R0,60A miles of |
 
 railway construction seems barely be- | gun. Brazil has yet to build its trans 1
 continental lines. With single ex- | ception the railroads are confined to |
 a belt along the coast from $50 to 454 l miles deep. The exception is the road extending from the port of Santos 800 miles westward to Porto EsperaneO on the Paraguay river. Rio de Janeiro, capital of Brazil.
 in which the exposition celebrating the centenary of Brazilian independence } is to be held, has a population be- tween a million and a million and half and is therefore one of the great est of cities. It shares roughly with 1 Vienna, Osaka, Picking, Hankow and Calcutta the rank of tenth city of the world In South America it is sur
 passed in size only by Buenos Aires. Set in series of valleys, backed and all but encireled by meuntain-like hills clad in a riot of tropical vegitation, and with a magnificent harbor at it's : feet Rio de Janeiro Is one of the most 5 beautiful-many travellers assert the 3 most beautiful-of the cities of the : world. Mans hand has helped nature s in bringing about this beauty. Broad bouleYards rim the deep creseents of s the harbor and the rough picturesque l adjoining coast; one of the most fa- 2 nous of botanical gardens has been '- dtd dRStf4CS dfC llttCu By ;si towering palms, while stately build s ing are set in spacious parks.
 "As multicolored and varied in beauty as the butterflies of the trop- ics" is the characterization of one re- cent visitor to the metropolis of Bra gil. Tn splendor of hue and setting
 this great city of the South is un- j. rivaled the world over. Here granite = peak and turouoise, sea, tropic forest and rainbow-tinted town, meet and
 harmonize.
 a glorious bay-the Bay of Guaaaba- . ra, mountain encircled, isle bejeweled. = From the shore, where parks and bou-
 levards are fast crowding out the old Rio of narrow street, rise ferested | hills on whose slopes the lovelier por- g tion of the city lies"
 T To see Rio at it's best and loveli- T est one must go to these mountains l. that tower over the city. Turning e hayward, one looks down, through a
 frame of tangled vines and branches.
 onto the tree-teps of the sloping vir- gin forest. Far below, set in verdufe,
 gleams the kaleidescopie city. with
 it's crescent shores. In numerous :" crescents the creaming sea meets the
 beaches-Formosa, Santa Luzia, Lapa, .hl Gloria, Flaminge Botofogo, verrnel- it ha. The bay, set in it's amphitheatfs ,d of hills, spafkles like sapphire. To .n and fro among the ships at anchor ut ply the busy paddle-wheei ferry boats e. to the islands and to Nictheroy, tho lg little sister city across the way. IT e. the distance tower the blue spires oi nd the lofty Organ meuntains.
 IT, Oceanward one looks down on ti- J. tanic granite mountains rising sheer in from the sea. There is bulky Baba- an lonia, and flat-topped Gavea, like l, he great sail unfurled. Between them Ii, nd Rios suburban beaehes-Leme Cap nd acabana, Ipanema, Lehion-in a glis he tening chain, their white villas nest hg ling between hill and short. The Av it. enida Atfantica, which connects then ss- is equalled only by boulevards alonl St the mediterranean.
 ;tr One can motor from the city t s these beaches and on to Gavea ove 9 a new road cut in the rock high Ahov
 the sea, climb to the divide at Tituc an and drop down, on the bay side 6 le- the range, to his starting place in tn ie- city-a wonder circuit of forty mile rst or more.
 by Avenida Rio Grande, Rios fines we thoroughfare was hand made" afte 'on the city had attained practically it nd present extent. In, 1904 1t was deeid
 a ed to carve this great modern avenu Ia. out of the city, over 800 homes bein p sacrificed.
 'on The avenue, more than a mile 1 ,h, length and so wide that it consists ( 'eo two distinct boulevards separated b Ie: a row of shade trees, is thronRed da and night with automobiles.
 The sidewalks the widest the tray so eler is likely to find in all his wofi oa travels, are of black and white stone 1le laid in mosaic designs, like those i e .. vogue in Lisbon. Both stones an It, workmen were brought from Portuga
 but similar pavements constructe later in other parts of the city a.