. Folks next door; the log book of a rambler. wers of strange sorts abound, and when the train sto])swe get out and pick boucputs of them, crowned with anew-fashioned thistle-bloom, red as a liame. Bananas ingroves are ripening l)y the waysidc. ]\[ango trees are inpink blossom. Beautiful yellow orchids a])pear now andthen, and magnolia ai;d omnge trees make the air fra-grant. The tulipan lifts its scarlet cup along the banana jialm in blossom suspends its red flower like agreat inverted torch, and a peculiar high palm with ra-<liating leaves suggests-green fireworks on to]) of a i)
. Folks next door; the log book of a rambler. wers of strange sorts abound, and when the train sto])swe get out and pick boucputs of them, crowned with anew-fashioned thistle-bloom, red as a liame. Bananas ingroves are ripening l)y the waysidc. ]\[ango trees are inpink blossom. Beautiful yellow orchids a])pear now andthen, and magnolia ai;d omnge trees make the air fra-grant. The tulipan lifts its scarlet cup along the banana jialm in blossom suspends its red flower like agreat inverted torch, and a peculiar high palm with ra-<liating leaves suggests-green fireworks on to]) of a i) lasts for hours—an cdorous tangle of rare beauty. As the train winds up the mountain side toward thesnowy ])eak of Orizaba, white in the sun. l^razil graduallymerges into Pennsylvania. The magnolia are fewer. And the traveler is nuide conscious thatthe road has required extraordinary engineering. A pow-erful engine, a blending of two locomotives with the ten-der on the top. diags the train and attains the traction. liio FOLKS NIOXI DOOIJ. nctnssaiv {o (nciHoiiic the livinondoiis grade of one foot int\venlv-li\e. Tlic vistas along these mountain sides areniagnifieent. .More than one view rei-ills the h)vely val-ley hetwecn the Alps, up whieh the St. (iothard railroadfrom Italy winds: Init tlu latter road ascends only 4,000feet to the siiniinit, while tlu Mexican railroail elimhsfrom live feet ahove the (iulf of ^lexieo at Vera Cruz,to over 8,000 feet at (iuadalu])e! There are many tun-nels along the route, and many line iron and stone hridges,feats of daring engineeiing. Tlic track is of steel, andas smooth as the best roads in our States. A GLLAirSE AT THE CAPITAL. IGl A GLIMPSE AT THE A :\iorxTAix top.—-coxditiox of the city.—a IIEAVEXLY CLIMATE. XO CELLARS. XO DUAIXACE. FEVERS AND DEATH IX SU:\IMEU THE GREAT XEED OF MEXICO. The city of i\[exieo, three hundred miles from VeraCruz, lies in the hottom of a great saucer sixty mile
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