human
It is a very different thing to-day to go up the mountain seated in a carriage, find a café at the top, and have nothing to do but look at the sights as we pass. They are well worth looking at! See! There is the bay, its water as blue as the sky, and you get a fine view of the old aqueduct.
gpt
I wondered what that was, said Maria.
human
It looks like the pictures I have seen of the Campagna at Rome. Is it made of stone?
gpt
Yes, said her uncle.
human
It was built of stone nearly two hundred years ago and is over four miles long. In some places its arches are over sixty feet high and it is as strong as when it was built. Through it passes all the water drunk in Rio, and is so delicious that we have a saying 'Who has drunk of the waters of Carioca can drink no other water,' and 'When you have drunk of the water of Carioca, you can live nowhere else but here.'
gpt
When Rio people speak of the friends who have lived in Rio they say, 'He is a Cariocan.'
human
Then mamma is a Cariocan!
gpt
And my father, too.
human
It seems to almost walk across the chasm, said Affonzo.
gpt
Where does the water come from?
human
When we reach the top of the mountain, I will show you, said his uncle.
gpt
See those magnificent waterfalls and cascades! The scenery around here is as fine as any in Brazil.
human
It is almost as nice as the White Mountains at home,