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Title: Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Walsh, R. (Robert), 1772-1852
Subjects: Brazil -- Description and travel Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Description and travel Brazil -- History
Publisher: London, F. Westley and A. H. Davis
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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alighted, examined it, and found it a strong chalybeate, which on trial was proved to possess the medicinal virtues of its class of waters. He therefore caused a reservoir to be formed, and a neat edifice erected over it with the following inscription :*— FONTE daGOA. FERREA DESCOBERTO PELO IMPERADOR PEDRO I«- EM. 24 DECEMBRO DE 1823. This is open to the public, and occasionally frequented by invalids, but more usually the water is bottled and sent to Rio. On applying some tests, I found it very strong; a dense scum covered the surface, and a thick ferruginous crust was deposited wherever it past. Ascending from hence to the summit of the gorge, the scene was very magnificent; on one side was the bay which we had left, and on the other the broad Atlantic. The steep valley leading to it, was full of enormous boulders of granite as large as churches, but perfectly spherical, like stones upon a beach, the angles * Fountain of chalybeate water, discovered by the Emperor Pedro I. 24th December, 1823.
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Chalybeate Well on the road to Tijuca - NOTICES OF BRAZIL. 505 - rubbed off evidently from the same cause, mutual attrition, What a sublime and awful conception does such an appearance give of the convulsions of nature, when the mountain masses were hurled down, and rolled about by the undulations of the water, as if they had been pebbles in the bed of a river. Over this wild glen the Tijuca impends 1750 feet high, and sends down two cascades.One tumbles over a broad ledge, and finally discharges itself through a lake into the Atlantic ocean. Beside this waterfall, are still seen the remains of shrines and cells, said to have been erected by the Brazilian ecclesiastics when they took refuge in this solitary spot from the French, under Du Quay Truim, in 1711. The other cataract falls in an opposite direction, and forms the river Maracanan, which runs into the bay near S. Christovao. This is perhaps one of the highest and most beautiful in South America.The whole river, running along the mountain above, arrives at the almost perpendicular

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