India rubber world . e, madehis purchase, andcame back chuck-ling. I fixed thattnozo, he said; I gave him fourbig Mexican centsinstead of as manyquarters. Whenhe opened hispacket, however,his face fell, for itcontained onlycommon few milessouth of this wehad a fine view ofthe great Nochis-tongo canal, which in some parts is 600 feet wide and 200feet deep, begun back in 1608, as a drainage canal for thevalley of Mexico. The railroad runs for miles by the side of it,and when one appreciates the tact that every bit of the earthwas taken out in baskets on the backs of peons, the magnitud
India rubber world . e, madehis purchase, andcame back chuck-ling. I fixed thattnozo, he said; I gave him fourbig Mexican centsinstead of as manyquarters. Whenhe opened hispacket, however,his face fell, for itcontained onlycommon few milessouth of this wehad a fine view ofthe great Nochis-tongo canal, which in some parts is 600 feet wide and 200feet deep, begun back in 1608, as a drainage canal for thevalley of Mexico. The railroad runs for miles by the side of it,and when one appreciates the tact that every bit of the earthwas taken out in baskets on the backs of peons, the magnitudeof the work is appalling. The canal was never completed, asthere was an error in the levels amounting to about 40 feet, overwhich the water refused to run. Soon after this the eternal snows of Popocatepetl and Ixtac-cihuatl sprang into sight, and although few of the AIN passengers pronounced either of the wordscorrect-snows. v * v Iy, all seemed to be sufficiently impressed. We M \Y 9°3-l THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 257. PRIMITIVE MEANS OB rRANSPORTATION, learned here thai the former of the two mountains had been pur-chased by the Standard Oil Co., who are to work the vast sul-phur deposits in the crater above the snows. The secondvolcano was exploited to us by a polite Mexican, who said thatthe Aztec name meant the lady of the snows, and pointedout that the irregular peaks of this mountain, with their snowymantle, took on the figure of a woman lying on her back withher arms folded. All the rest of the party said that the likenesswas perfect, and to save trouble I agreed with them, but itreally looked more like a couple of huge circus tents freshfrom the laundry. Shortly after this we reached the City of Mexico, took a carriage, drove to a hotel that was built in a hollow square, and that had tiled floors, stuccoed walls, and rooms with- rfExico out baths, unpacked our traps, sent out and boughtsoap, and spent two hours in making alkaline solu-tions from the various strata of dust
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