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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 21: 1865-1868: Aet. 58-61. (search)
have never seen. In short, the idea came to me gradually, that I might spend the summer at Rio de Janeiro, and that, with the present facilities for travel, the journey would not be too fatiguing fo here would be mere repetition. He was absent sixteen months. The first three were spent in Rio de Janeiro, and in excursions about the neighborhood of her beautiful bay and the surrounding mountainst on uninterruptedly. There was not an idle member in the company. From the time he left Rio de Janeiro, Agassiz had the companionship of a young Brazilian officer of the engineer corps, Major Cou along the coast, especially in the mountains back of Ceara, and in the Organ mountains near Rio de Janeiro. From beginning to end this journey fulfilled Agassiz's brightest anticipations. Mr. Than, to a greater or less degree, included in the ice-period. The first three months spent in Rio de Janeiro and its environs gave him the key to phenomena connected with both these subjects, and he fo
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 23: 1871-1872: Aet. 64-65. (search)
Chapter 23: 1871-1872: Aet. 64-65. Sailing of the Hassler. Sargassum fields.-dredging at Barbadoes. from the West Indies to Rio de Janeiro. Monte Video. quarantine. glacial traces in the Bay of Monte Video. the Gulf of Mathias. dredging off Gulf of St. George. dredging off Cape Virgens. possession Bay. salt p already known, but thus far exceedingly rare in museums, is already in a measure realized. . . . Little can be said of the voyage from the West Indies to Rio de Janeiro. It had the usual vicissitudes of weather, with here and there a flight (so it might justly be called) of flying-fish, a school of porpoises or dog-fish, or a sail in the distance, to break the monotony. At Rio de Janeiro it became evident that the plan of the voyage must be somewhat curtailed. This was made necessary partly by the delays in starting,—in consequence of which the season would be less favorable than had been anticipated along certain portions of the proposed route,—an
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, chapter 28 (search)
siz was prominent.—Portland Press. A journey in Brazil. By Professor and Mrs. Louis Agassiz. With eight full-page Illustrations and many smaller ones, from photographs and sketches. 8vo, $5.00. Contents I. Voyage from New York to Rio de Janeiro. II. Rio de Janeiro and its Environs—Juiz de Fora. III. Life in Rio—Fazenda Life. IV. Voyage up the Coast to Para. V. From Para to Manaos. VI. Life at Manaos—Voyage from Manaos to Tabatinga. VII. Life in Tefee. VIII. ReRio de Janeiro and its Environs—Juiz de Fora. III. Life in Rio—Fazenda Life. IV. Voyage up the Coast to Para. V. From Para to Manaos. VI. Life at Manaos—Voyage from Manaos to Tabatinga. VII. Life in Tefee. VIII. Return to Manaos—Amazonian Picnic. IX. Manaos and its Neighborhood. X. Excursion to Mauhes and its Neighborhood. XI. Return to Manaos—Excursion on the Rio Negro. XII. Down the River to Para—Excursions on the Coast. XIII. Physical History of the Amazons. XIV. Ceara. XV. Public Institutions of Rio—Organ Mountains. XVI. General Impressions of Brazil. Appendix. The volume possesses a high degree of interest in the richness of its details concerning