A trip to Mexico, being notes of a journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and back, with an appendix, containing and being a paper about the ancient nations and races who inhabited Mexico before and (14784090803)

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Title: A trip to Mexico, being notes of a journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and back, with an appendix, containing and being a paper about the ancient nations and races who inhabited Mexico before and at the time of the Spanish conquest, and the ancient stone and other structures and ruins of ancient cities found there
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Becher, Henry C. R
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel Mexico -- Antiquities
Publisher: Toronto : Willing and Williamson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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rses and harness perfect. You see ladies beau-tifully dressed, and you see the dress and get up,by thousands, of everybody in the country, high andlow, and of very many who come from other lands.The paseo in the afternoon is a sight to see againand again. For a certain length, about three miles,it is guarded by cavalry on either side, doing dutyas mounted police : beyond, some two miles or so,is Chapultepec, which was the home of Montezumaand his race; and beyond that again, some twomiles, is Tacubaya, a large village with beautifulparks, villas and gardens, where the rich of Mexicolove to dwell and to visit. We have been to Chapultepec again and again :it is surrounded by a high fence : entering by alarge gate close to the high road, we are at once inits grounds, and among huge venerable trees, oneof which, a Cyprus, ^fi/ty feet in circumference, iscalled Montezumas tree, from his being muchaccustomed to sit under it. Not far from thistree rises abruptly the high hill or mass of rock
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5 CHAPULTEPEC. 71 on which is the picturesque building called thecastle of Chapultepec, built by the Viceroy Galvezin the seventeenth century. We found its topmosttower being fitted up for the convenience of someastronomers who were shortly to be in Mexico towatch the transit of Venus. The rooms are, someof them, fine, but everywhere there is a lookof desertion—of the empty house. It is usedbut now and then, and only for State occasions, andthough Maximilian delighted in it, there is little ornothing within its walls that we are permitted tosee to remind us that he was ever here. I cannot properly describe the view from thecastle. It is beyond me. Immediately below it,are its own beautiful grounds ; beyond, the villas.churcheS; groves, parks, and gardens of Tacubaya.Again, beyond them, Popocatapetl and Iztaccihuatl.To the left, and in front, are the distant city andvalley, with vistas of the lakes, intensely brilliant inblue : more to the left are the sierra of Guadalupe;and everywh