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college, is built in a good style, but is now much 

 out of repair ; the episcopal palace, and the convent 

 of the Carmelites, are large and stately edifices ; 

 the cathedral and some other churches are spacious, 

 though the ornaments are not in good taste, but 

 in other respects the style of architecture is very 

 plain and ordinary. There are in the city, three 

 monasteries, the Franciscan, Carmelite, and Bene- 

 dictine ; two nunneries, and two hospitals. Lieu- 

 tenant-colonel Miiller has erected, out of the city, 

 a wooden circus for bull-fights as it seems, in a very 

 good style, and has done a great service by throw- 

 ing three stone bridges over the two streams Ta- 

 mandatahy and Inhagabahy which unite below the 

 town. 



In the annals of Brazil, S. Paulo is highly inter- 

 esting beyond all the other cities in a historical 

 point of view. It was here that the pious Jesuit 

 fathers, Nobrega and Anchieta, in 1552, exerted 

 themselves to convert to Christianity a peaceable 

 tril.e of Goyanazes under their cacique, Tebire9a ; 

 and after many severe trials, which obtained them 

 the title of wonder-working benefactors, with the 

 assistance of Portuguese colonists from S.Vicente, 

 where there had been a factory ever since 1527, 

 they founded the first settlement of ecclesiastics 

 in the interior of Brazil. Many circumstances, 

 and above- all, the temperate climate and the good- 

 natured phlegmatic character of the Indians who 

 mingled with the Europeans, favoured the speedy 



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