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NOTES ON BRAZIL. 



and bridle, and quite clean and fresh, for it seemed out of order also that I 

 should enter the town mounted on any inferior animal. Upon the whole 

 it was manifestly intended by the servants that we should make a grand 

 entree ; but as this did not suite my taste, I employed the dressing room 

 in shaving and changing my linen, dismissed three of the men singly, 

 with the fourth descended into the town, and quickly reached the house 

 of my friend. 



I had ridden that day fifteen miles, in a course about West by I^orth, 

 decreased our elevation seven hundred feet, and completed two hundred 

 and sixty-five miles from Rio de Janeiro, 



