Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development; . ican civilisa-tion, is a really handsome and attractive city. Indeed,the capitals of many Spanish-American republics, andtheir civilisation and social regime, are often in the natureof a revelation to the traveller from Europe or the UnitedStates, who has generally pictured a far more primitiveState. With its handsome institutions and pubhc build-ings, and extensive boulevards and parks, and character-istic social, literary, and commercial life,
Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development; . ican civilisa-tion, is a really handsome and attractive city. Indeed,the capitals of many Spanish-American republics, andtheir civilisation and social regime, are often in the natureof a revelation to the traveller from Europe or the UnitedStates, who has generally pictured a far more primitiveState. With its handsome institutions and pubhc build-ings, and extensive boulevards and parks, and character-istic social, literary, and commercial life, the City ofMexico may be described as Americo-Parisian, andit is rapidly becoming a centre of attraction forUnited States tourists, who, avid of historical andforeign colour, descend thither in Pullman-car loads fromthe north. The city lies some three miles from the shoreof Lake Texcoco, which, with that of Chalco and others,forms a group of salt- and fresh-water lagoons in thestrange Valley of Mexico. At the time of the Conquest thecity stood upon an island, connected with the mainland bythe remarkable stone causeways upon which the struggles. A FIRST RECONNAISSANCE 17 between the Spaniards and the Aztecs took place, duringthe siege of the city at the time of the Conquest. Butthese lakes, after the manner of other bodies of water,generally, in the high elevations of the AmericanCordilleras—Titicaca, in Peru, to wit—are graduallyperishing by evaporation, their waters diminishing cen-tury by century. The Valley of Mexico, however, ofrecent years has received an artificial hydrographic outletin the famous drainage canal and tunnel, which conductsthe overflow into a tributary of the Panuco river, and soto the Gulf of Mexico. The Valley of Mexico is surrounded by volcanic hills,forming a more recent formation of the Andine folds, ofwhich the Sierra Madres compose the Mexican have now to cross this, for our faces are set towardsthe Pacific Ocean. We ascend and pa
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