Travels over the table lands and cordilleras of MexicoDuring the years 1843 and 44; including a description of California ..and the biographies of Iturbide and Santa Anna . ber, 1519, the day on whicli they first set foot inthe city of Mexico. As I advanced over the diversified and beautifully pictu-resque environs of the Capital, I could behold before me alarge and compact city, which had for its first and moststriking features, white walls and lofty steeples; and, I daresay, for the number, the magnitude and height, the religiousbuildings of the present day are not unlike what they werein th
Travels over the table lands and cordilleras of MexicoDuring the years 1843 and 44; including a description of California ..and the biographies of Iturbide and Santa Anna . ber, 1519, the day on whicli they first set foot inthe city of Mexico. As I advanced over the diversified and beautifully pictu-resque environs of the Capital, I could behold before me alarge and compact city, which had for its first and moststriking features, white walls and lofty steeples; and, I daresay, for the number, the magnitude and height, the religiousbuildings of the present day are not unlike what they werein the day when the conqueror first beheld them, the tower-ing temples of the gods of Anahuac. Thus, on the eveningof the 26th of November, unharmed by ladrones, or anyother casualty, in a fatigued condition, and covered withdust, I arrived in the city of Mexico—too late, however, tobehold any of the beauties of the place I had entered. My first care, after the custom-house officers had exami-ned my baggage—for in Mexico there are revenue officersin every town in the interior—was to take up my lodgingsin the Gran Sociadad, a French Hotel, in Holy Ghost street. (^/-. TRAVELS IN MEXICO. CHAPTER V. TIic Overthrow of Cortes. City of Mexico. Receding of the Lake. View of Holy Ghoststreet. A large Church. A Mexican Lady. Gen. Thompsons residence. An ele);antpart of tlie town. The streets of Mexico. Earthquakes. Style of Areliilectiire. Thecity of Mexico. The proportion of a Spanish house. Tlie jiopulation of the city of Mex-ico. Gen. Thompsons hospitality. Haron La Kook. The Ila/.a. The Ialace. TheCathedral. Remarkahle Carriae;ea. Basalt Stone. Interior of the Cathedral. MisterOfficer an American artist. Virgin of Remedios. Tomb of Iturbide. Rarefied airThe Convent of San Francisco. The Government Palace, Mint, &c. A general officerat the reception door. Capt. Cortes, of the Grenadiers. National Monument. IturbidesPalace. Santa Anna Theatre. Numerous Beggars. Journeymen Beggars. Fea
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