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with life, showing the latent force which is impelling us on to the 

 magnificent destiny prepared for our country by a Divine Providence." 

 The background, with Eio's wonderful hills, and the foreground, 

 with Eio's magnificent bay, combine here to make a natural setting 

 which it is safe to say no national or international exposition has ever 

 had. No artificial lakes and canals, picturesque as these may be; no 

 magnificent buildings; no marvels of electric lighting; no fountains or 

 cascades — none of the things that have made other expositions famous, 

 can compare with what nature herself has done in giving Eio de 

 Janeiro this splendid harbor and these mountains, here green and soft, 

 there grim and bare, with the famous " Sugar Loaf " guarding the 



The Exposition Theater. 

 The theater has a seating capacity of about 750. 



entrance to the harbor on one side of the exposition grounds, and 

 the precipitous Corcovado, towering up like a sentinel above the city, 

 on the other. To readers who do not know Eio de -Janeiro, the words 

 of the opening address, in which the beauties of the city were enthusi- 

 astically described, will seem like undue exaggeration. The speaker 

 said: 



The most beautiful city in South America, where the deep sea and the 

 laughing bays; the high and solemn peaks; the gently-sloping hills; the rows 

 of houses bathed in sunshine or showing, less distinctly, in the lights of the 

 rosary of diamonds which surrounds the shores, fantastically mirrored in the 

 waters of the bay — these combine to give a picture which is wholly unique ia 



