great pains to teach me _Padre Nosso_, _Avi Maria_, _Santa Maria_, all which I was instructed to write in my book, and then compelled to repeat several times to the rest, who seemed very much pleased at my promising symptoms of Catholicism. A very fine girl, about ten years of age, had just entered the convent. I expressed my surprise and regret, to one of the governesses, that so young a child should be shut up here for life; she replied, that it was infinitely better than being exposed to the wickedness of the world. They are involved in great ignorance, but apparently not only comfortable, but happy, and great cleanliness pervaded that part of the convent that we saw. We returned by the same avenues; and the bell, which had been intrusted to my novel management, sending forth rather unusual sounds, induced some of the more secluded sisterhood to peep, with some surprise, out of their cells; and, as I was found not to be intuitively a bellman to their wishes, I was as quickly deprived of my new situation. [Illustration: _On Stone by C. Shoosmith from a Sketch by Jas. Henderson._ _Printed by C. Hullmandel._ THE CONVENT OF AJUDA.] An aqueduct, for furnishing water to the Cidade Nova, is nearly completed; in which quarter some new fountains are to be observed, especially the Lagarto, and another in the Campo St. Anna, large, built of stone, and discharging the water by numerous spouts. The fountains in the eastern district of the city consist of one in the Palace Square, in the shape of a tower, the _Marrecas_; one in the Moura Place; and the _Carioca_, with twelve spouts; all of which are supplied by the aqueduct already mentioned.