Mexico to-day, a country with a great future; and a glance at the prehistoric remains and antiquities of the Montezumas . out. I give a drawing of theextant portions in Plate XLI. Before visiting the minor towns of Toluca and Tula, thetraveller will probably find his way to Puebla; should hehappen to be in the City of Mexico during Lent, or at the timeof any great Church festival, he will find the Plaza andprincipal streets placarded with notices to the efiect that excur-sion trains are running to that city, ofiering to convey peopleat cheap rates to witness the Church processions and religiou
Mexico to-day, a country with a great future; and a glance at the prehistoric remains and antiquities of the Montezumas . out. I give a drawing of theextant portions in Plate XLI. Before visiting the minor towns of Toluca and Tula, thetraveller will probably find his way to Puebla; should hehappen to be in the City of Mexico during Lent, or at the timeof any great Church festival, he will find the Plaza andprincipal streets placarded with notices to the efiect that excur-sion trains are running to that city, ofiering to convey peopleat cheap rates to witness the Church processions and religiousceremonies, which are carried out on a grander scale at Pueblathan elsewhere. The journey takes from six to seven hours; you havePopocatapetl and Ixtaccihuatl on your right all the way fromMexico to Puebla; at Apizaco, which is a junction, refreshmentsare served. An English engineer conducts the train, and fromhim I learned that an engine-driver between Esperanza andVera Cruz (170 miles) is paid $125, or £25, a month, and thefireman $60, or £12. He also told me that from Esperanza to Mexico (eighty ill< c w^-. <p H<i m P OQ ?: 14O CHAP. XXV, PUEBLA. 225 miles on the level) the driver has £18 a month and thefireman £12. Puebla strikes you from a distance as all domes and steeples,surrounded by a vast plain of wheat on a dead level, nothingbreaking the monotony but the clouds of dust raised by trainsof donkeys on the roads. Go to the Hotel de Diligencias; itis better than anything I have found anywhere in Mexico;the meals are served at little tables in a large open upstairscorridor which runs round the court of the hotel; this corridoris ornamented with shrubs and flowers and cages of singingbirds; the landlord, IMons. Canni, besides being young andhandsome and having a very pretty wife, was exceedinglyattentive and polite; the charges were two dollars a day forbed and board—^just half of what I had to pay in Mexico formuch worse accommodation and fare. The city c
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