TOWN OF RECIFE. 



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The bridge which connects St. Antonio with 

 Boa Vista is constructed entirely of wood, and 

 has upon it no shops, but is likewise narrow. 

 The principal street of Boa Vista, which was 

 formerly a piece of ground overflowed at high 

 Water, is broad and handsome : the rest of this 

 third division consists chiefly of small houses, 

 and as there is plenty of room here, it extends 

 to some distance in a straggling manner. 

 Neither the streets of this part of the town 

 nor of St. Antonio are paved. A long embank- 

 ment has likewise been made, which connects 

 the sand-bank and town of St. Antonio with 

 the main land at Affbgados *, to the south 

 and west of Boa Vista. The river Capi- 

 baribe, so famous in Pernambucan history, dis- 

 charges its waters into the channel between 

 St. Antonio and Boa Vista, after having run for 

 some distance in a course nearly east and west. 



Some few of the windows of the houses are 

 glazed, and have iron balconies ; but the major 

 part are without glass, and of these the balco- 

 nies are enclosed by lattice-work ; and no females 

 are to be seen, excepting the negro slaves, which 

 gives a very sombre look to the streets. The 

 Portuguese t, the Brazilian, and even the Mu- 



* I did not discover any vestiges of the fort, which stood 

 there a the time of the Dutch war. 

 f I shall use this word exclusively, when rpeaking of 



