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ties of the gayest character take place, not even excepting music and dancing.

For two successive days the rain poured in such torrents that we were kept entirely within doors except a call on Mrs. B and Miss P, who have just removed to a mansion in the vicinity vacated by Lord Ponsonby, for one at Botafogo. Thursday, however, was a fine day; and Commodore Thompson sent his gig for Mr. Tudor to visit the Guerriere; where he was received under a salute of seventeen guns. On leaving for the shore again, we went on board the Ganges; and afterwards called on the admiral of the French fleet, the Baron de Roussin, of the Duquesne seventy-four; a fine looking and polished man, of superior talent and much literary and scientific attainment. He was recently a member of the ministry at home, and in his visit to Rio is clothed for a special object in relation to the French claims-with the double powers of diplomatist and naval commander.

The cabins of the Duquesne are admirably fitted up a splendid portrait of the a Broness and one of her children, screened by a light curtain of silk, forms a conspicuous ornament in that furnished as a cabinet-presenting a silent testimony of conjugal affection, which I always delight to notice.

On returning to Flamengo, we met a small party at dinner, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. B- and our friend Miss P, and afterwards passed the, evening with the Baron Martinez, the Dutch consul general..

The next morning, after a call on the gentlemen of the French legation in our neighborhood, we extended our walk as far as Lord Ponsonby's, at Botafogo. This beautiful bay seemed more than ever to possess the features of a noble lake embosomed in magnificent scenery. A stranger, in gazing upon it from almost any point of view along its widely curving shores, would think it entirely landlocked-as much so as if a hundred miles from the sea. It is a favorite residence with foreigners; and many fine mansions skirt its borders, interspersed with showy portals leading to others more retired in a lovely little valley sweeping inland from it.

The emperor has a cottage close by the water, on the western side-a neat but unpretending building; with a delightful garden and shrubbery, gay in a luxuriance of bloom and beauty. Indeed nothing can surpass the richness and variety of growth seen on every hand; and wherever the eye wanders, after leaving the precincts of the city, it falls on a world of splendors in the productions and coloring of the vegetable kingdom.

I was particularly impressed with this characteristic of the scenery about Rio, in a stroll over the Gloria Hill the same evening. This is an enchanting spot, nearly surrounded by the sea, the fretting of whose waters is ever heard around its base; and while it commands at almost every point, magnificent views of the city, bay, and mountains-is itself covered with a thousand beauties in tree and flower: splendid liburnums and acacias, cashews and palms-orange, citron, and lime trees, with bananas

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and coffee, &c. &c., inclosed in hedges of myrtle and mimosa, interspersed with jessamine and roses; and festooned with creepers and various parasitical plants.

Perceiving a gateway open, as I descended the hill, leading through some delightful grounds, separated from a mansion by a hedge of roses and a light railing, I ventured in; leaving it for some servants near the offices to apprise me of the intrusion, if it should be deemed such. Bows and looks of civility put me at ease under the privilege of entrée thus assumed; and I rambled by a gravel walk a half mile through a young paradise of fragrance and beauty, to a temple on the edge of a hill, overlooking a beautiful vale with a rapid stream in the centre; while the section of an aqueduct, the city, and the bay, were in the distance.

The grounds and mansion, I believe, are those of the Baronessa de Campos, a distinguished noblesse, with a fortune of some forty millions of dollars. And in the enjoyment of the prospect around, from the delightful resting place in which I was seated, I could not but recur in thoughthowever unworthy of a pretension to the character drawn-to Cowper's lines on "The freeman whom the truth makes free :""

He looks abroad into the varied field

Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared
With those whose mansions glitter in his sight,
Calls the delightful scenery all his own.
His are the mountains, and the valleys his,
And the resplendent rivers. His to enjoy

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With a propriety that none can feel,

But who, with filial confidence inspired,
Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye,

And smiling say, "My Father made them all!"

There is a public garden in the city, open on the eastern side to the bay, and in full view of the Gloria Hill. It contains several avenues of stately trees, with broad walks of gravel beneath; and has considerable beauty of more lowly growth, in a variety of plants and flowers indigenous to the tropics. It is also ornamented with a fountain, and a couple of obelisks. The fountain, however, appears to have been long inactive, and the whole garden seems rather in a neglected state, and not much frequented by the inhabitants of the city.

On Saturday, Mr. Tudor took me a drive to the palace of St. Cristovao, a principal residence of the emperor, three miles west of the city. The road to it is broad and fine, well lighted with lamps at night, and thickly lined with habitations. St. Cristovao was formerly the country-house of a wealthy merchant; and is an inferior looking building, of two stories, in Moorish style, painted yellow, with white pilasters and cornices; and having a square tower at one corner, surmounted by a kind of clumsy dome. It would not compare, in architectural beauty, with the country residences of many gentlemen in the United States. A large courtyard extends down a gentle declivity in front, separated from the lawn by a gateway with a colonnade and lodge on either side, of Portland stone; after the model of the Duke of Northumberland's, at Zion House on the

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Thames. Though light and handsome, it is entirely out of keeping with the general style of the mansion; and the portals being shut, and no drive leading through them-the entrance being by a plain gate not far distant-the whole has an incongruous and awkward effect.

The site of the mansion itself, however, is delightful, commanding one or two fine stretches of the bay, with extensive views of a beautiful and highly cultivated country, spotted with cottages and country seats the whole encircled by wild and fantastic mountains, at a distance to give the finest effect to their forms and coloring. A new and lofty addition to the palace, in Grecian architecture, is making on one wing; and I think it not improbable that it is the design of the emperor, after it shall be finished, to tear down the old structure, and rebuild the whole in a style corresponding to that now finishing; in which case, the edifice will be noble, and worthy the scenery by which it is surrounded.

The emperor having gone into the city, we did not enter the palace; in which I am told there is nothing more worthy of notice, than in the residences of most persons of wealth and rank.

It was our intention, on our return, to have visited the Protestant burial ground, situated on the bay between St. Cristovao and the city; but, designing also to call on the bishop of Rio, we were fearful of making the hour too late, should we prolong our ride, and were under the necessity of passing by. It is a spot necessarily of interest to every Protestant foreigner, and is said to surpass in loveliness almost