A Trip to Rio's Sugar Loaf Mountain 



The aerial cableway 

 to the top of Sugar 

 Loaf Mountain at 

 Rio de Janeiro. The 

 altitude of the plat- 

 form in the fore- 

 ground is about 700 

 feet, and it takes 

 four minutes to 

 reach it. The 

 mountain is 1,383 

 feet high. It takes 

 six minutes to 

 reach the top 



_ Newman Traveltalks 

 and Brown and Dawson 



The trip is one of the most thrilling in the world. The car holds 

 twenty people and the cables are so arranged that if one should 

 break the other would bear the entire weight without mishap 



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