Around and about South America (1890) (14781349101)

Identifier: aroundaboutsouth01vinc (find matches)
Title: Around and about South America
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Vincent, Frank, 1848- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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is valley was very precipitous. Congonhasseemed to be a hamlet rather above the average. In theGrand Plaza I even noticed the word Teatro on a smallsingle-story edifice. The cathedral contains a very remarka-ble series of old carved wooden statuary, cleverly arrangedin historical tableaux, which illustrate scenes in the life ofChrist and the apostles, and an engraved specimen of whichI am fortunately able to show the reader. Passing through Congonhas, you ascend another sharpridge, and find just beyond it the village and mine of MorroYelho. The clatter of the mills is heard a long way off.The opening to the mine, the stamping and other works, andthe dwellings of the miners, are crowded into a eirclet ofthe hills. Dismounting at the general ofiices, I enter theprivate grounds of the San Juan del Rey Mining Company,and am received with open-armed hospitality by Mr. GeorgeChalmers, the superintendent, in a large old-fashioned resi-dence, built by the Portuguese miners more than a hundred
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DOWN THE GREAT 0OLD-MINE. 277 years ago. It is a very comfortable single-story house, fittedwith every luxury of a high-class English home. The sit-ting-room and parlors are full of natural history collections,among them the skins of many animals shot by the superin-tendent, who is a devoted sportsman and collector. One standcontains a splendid lot of crystals with magnetic pyrites.The baths are supplied with cool spring water, which con-stantly flows through them. In one room is a fine large bill-iard-table. The lawn is marked for tennis, while in a littleoctagonal pavilion near by is an excellent library of books,with a large table, covered with magazines and other peri-odicals, and well supplied with writing materials. A broadpiazza extends around the house, and affords interestingviews of the neighboring hills. Rare orchids, in endless pro-fusion, border the piazza, while a pretty inner court-yard islaid out with fruit-trees, flowers, and gravel walks. Thereare commodious stables