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Misericordia 
1857 
  
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Rev. Daniel Parish Kidder and Rev. James Cooley Fletcher Brazil and the Brazilians: Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches (Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1857), p.114.
 
The new buildings of the Misericordia are upon a grand scale, and the view of it to those entering the harbor is, architecturally considered, truly magnificent. It is constructed of stone, and is six hundred feet in length. There is only the half of the immense structure presented to the eye as we look at the sketch below, engraved from a daguerreotype; and the reader will be astonished at the size of this noble beneficiary edifice when he is informed that it is a double building, and that its twin-brother is in the rear of it; but it is so connected as to form several airy quadrangular courts. With its modern improvements, insuring superior ventilation, light, and cleanliness, with its flower-gardens and shrubberies for the recreation and exercise of the convalescent, with its cool fountains, its spacious apartments, kind attendants, and beautiful situation, this hospital is, as has been well said, "a credit to the civilization of the age, and a splendid monument of the munificence and benevolence of the Brotherhood of Mercy. 
 
 
  
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