The kingdom of the 'White woman' a sketch . CITY AND VALLEY OF. [CO FROM A BALLOON. White Woman. i6 o white woman blazed forth as thoughin a golden chamber, then all vanishedinto darkness—while from the world be-low, our ears were saluted by a wild,shrill whistle telling of the trains incomingfrom the north, bringing more and moreand more each day, month and year themillions of a peaceful conquest, overwhose reign, let us hope, the superstitionsof the past can cast no shadow. 164 The Kingdom of the CHAPTER XXXVII. ALL that is very well from the stand-point of progress, etc.; but from thatof th
The kingdom of the 'White woman' a sketch . CITY AND VALLEY OF. [CO FROM A BALLOON. White Woman. i6 o white woman blazed forth as thoughin a golden chamber, then all vanishedinto darkness—while from the world be-low, our ears were saluted by a wild,shrill whistle telling of the trains incomingfrom the north, bringing more and moreand more each day, month and year themillions of a peaceful conquest, overwhose reign, let us hope, the superstitionsof the past can cast no shadow. 164 The Kingdom of the CHAPTER XXXVII. ALL that is very well from the stand-point of progress, etc.; but from thatof the dreamer and traveler I feel verymuch as I once heard a lady say as shegazed from Sparrow Hill on the orientalsplendors of Moscow, Well, I trust all thiswill soon pass away, but I am glad I haveseen it before it was disturbed. So it waswith Mexico. One is happy to have seenher picturesqueness before the influence ofthe north has changed it all, thereby reduc-ing it to the utterly uninteresting and com-mon-place characteristics of our own cities,each and al
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