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160 sight from this highest point dominating the city and environs. Now and then clouds drift around and envelop in a fog and obscure the view then drift away again revealing patches of [[strikethrough]] home agglomero [[/strikethrough]] building agglomeration which make up the city below and separate from each others, by a succession of steep hills, some barren but most of them [[strikethrough]] green and [[/strikethrough]] covered with green vegetation while in the distance the blue atlantic melts together with the blue of the sky without revealing a distinct horizont line. [[left margin in red]] Rio Janiero [[/left margin]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 161 Then nearer by the gently curved water shores. A marvelous sight and over-abundance of picturesqueness [[red underline]] This city might furnish picturesque sites enough for building on them half a dozen beautiful cities. An aesthetic delight [[/red underline]] Wednesday. March 31-1920 Went to town early Changed 22 1/2 Urugayan pesos for 18.500 milreis or about 1 Peso = 3.4. Milreis Change 10 Dollars ^[[American]] Gold piece and got 39. Milreis or about [[red underline]] $1.00 = 3.9. Milreis [[/red underline]] Went to [[red underline]] Grace [[/red underline]] to telegraph to their house in Montevideo to forward mail here. and send a [[red underline]] cablegram to Celine in ABC.code. [[/red underline]] 12 words for which I paid [[red underline]] 29.50 Milreis [[/red underline]] telling her that my departure