ADVERTISEMENT. 



THESE little volumes consist of extracts from the 

 Journal of a young person, who, having passed her 

 childhood at Rio Janeiro, was sent, at the close of 

 that period, on a visit to her English friends. 



Her father, Colonel Montague, had been ordered 

 to Brazil upon confidential business ; and, foreseeing 

 that it would occupy him for an indefinite time, he 

 carried his family along with him. They had re- 

 mained in that country several years, when their 

 domestic happiness was suddenly destroyed by his 

 death ; and the effect of the shock on his unfor- 

 tunate widow was such, that she was wholly unable 

 to undertake a voyage to England. She was, 

 therefore, obliged to continue her residence at Rio ; 

 but her brother, who had always been tenderly 



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