Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . its spear-head, showing copperbeneath. Tossed into corners were two large heaps ofold, vellum-bound books from the convents. This is acommon enough sight in Mexico. Treasures are abun-dant here which our own connoisseurs would delight totreat with the greatest respect. Apart from this there isno other museum nor especial display of antiquity. Thetown, kept nicely whitewashed, looks rather new. It con-tains, however, the oldest churchin Mexico. The chapel of SanFrancisco, part of a dismant
Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . its spear-head, showing copperbeneath. Tossed into corners were two large heaps ofold, vellum-bound books from the convents. This is acommon enough sight in Mexico. Treasures are abun-dant here which our own connoisseurs would delight totreat with the greatest respect. Apart from this there isno other museum nor especial display of antiquity. Thetown, kept nicely whitewashed, looks rather new. It con-tains, however, the oldest churchin Mexico. The chapel of SanFrancisco, part of a dismantledconvent, now used as a barracks,bears the date of 1529, and with-in it are the first baptismal font(the same in which the Tlaxca-lan chiefs above-mentioned werebaptized by Cortez) and the firstChristian pulpit in ceiling is of panelled cedar,picked out with gilded suns andthe like. The approach is up an inclined plane, shadedwith ash-trees. Through three large arches of an entrancegate-way, flanked by a tower, the town below appears asthrough a series of frames. A massive church in the. OLD FONT AT TLAXCALA. PUEBLA, CHOLULA, TLAXCALA. 223 town plaza was cracked and unfitted for use bj an earth-quake in the year 1800, and its ruins stand untouched,with the bells still hanging in the steeple.
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