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186 [[vertical annotation in left margin written in red]] Rio Janeiro [[/vertical annotation]] April 10. Motor car ride thru the mountains and forest [[double underlined in red]] Tijuca forest. [[/double underlined in red]] - marvelous? Extraordinary view over city and ocean. Endless succession of [[underlined in red]] every kind of tropical trees [[/underlined in red]] and numberless varieties of Palms [[underlined in red]] all growing natural. [[/underlined in red]] Winding road, sandy soil, well kept. The whole appears as a well kept [[strikethrough]] Garden [[/strikethrough]] Park, altho it is left in its natural condition except for the road. Furnas Agassiz, weird rock formation - gigantic boulders balanced on others furnishing a shelter. [[underlined in red]] Everything well kept, [[/underlined in red]] cement benches and tables and even cement shelves for picknickers, all this interwoven with abundant and varied vegetation lianas, orchids, palms [[end page]] [[start page]] 187 etc. Also a frail waterfall, spraying in a thin veil over a bare slanting rock. [[underlined in red]] Orchids and grassy plants [[/underlined in red]] hanging on smooth sides of a granite rock ledge. Flowers white, excellent odor, trees flowering violet, pink, blue or yellow everywhere. Soft green hues of vegetation. Bananas and palms alternating thru lower landscape, meadows and ponds or lagoons all exceedingly picturesque, [[underlined in red]] and ^[[blue]] ocean in the distance, [[/underlined in red]] with rocky Islands. [[underlined in red]] Boa Vista then Avenida Niermaier. [[/underlined in red]] - (pity for the name!) wild enchanting waves breaking on the rocks below. An enormous ^[[mountainous]] granite [[strikethrough]] moun [[/strikethrough]] block lifting up [[strikethrough]] in the air a [[/strikethrough]] its head steeply into the air. (the Cavea?) then
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Avenida Niemeyer is a coastal road in Rio de Janeiro
