THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT CONVENT AT ADJUDA IN RIO JANEIRO

At the end of the chapel is a large quadrangle, entered by a massive gateway, surrounded by three storeys of grated windows.  Here female negro pedlars come with their goods, and expose them in the court-yard below.  The nuns, from their grated windows above, see what they like, and, letting down a cord, the article is fastened to it; it is then drawn up and examined, and, if approved of, the price is let down. The nuns of this convent are celebrated for making sweet confectionary, which people purchase.

Anon/Sketches