. William H. Seward's travels around the world. iled. The experiments of the same sort on the Pacific coast areno more promising. The Aztec race, though it has not increasedin numbers, has not diminished under Spanish conquest and coloni-zation. Exalted to citizenship, suffrage, and education, the Indiansof Mexico may be saved ; but it is noticeable that intermarriages be-tween the pure Indians and the Creoles and European immigrantshave practically ceased, and that Mexico exhibits therefore a nationdivided bv castes, of which the native one is the most numerous, 24 UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. iled. The experiments of the same sort on the Pacific coast areno more promising. The Aztec race, though it has not increasedin numbers, has not diminished under Spanish conquest and coloni-zation. Exalted to citizenship, suffrage, and education, the Indiansof Mexico may be saved ; but it is noticeable that intermarriages be-tween the pure Indians and the Creoles and European immigrantshave practically ceased, and that Mexico exhibits therefore a nationdivided bv castes, of which the native one is the most numerous, 24 UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND PACIFIC OCEAN. while the foreign one is the most wealthy and intelligent. Onecannot but hope that the Aztecs of Mexico may prove an exceptionto the elsewhere universal process of extermination. Reno.—On leaving Elcho, we followed a mountain-pass whichis barricaded with basalt columns, more picturesque than the ad-mired Palisades of the Hudson, and this pass brought us out onthe bank of the Humboldt River. We have followed its wild and detank. MOUTH OF BIG iOTTi >\\V< n .1) winding way as it flows over an alkaline bed, destitute of vegeta-tion, two hundred and fifty miles, until it spreads its waters overa broad and sterile plain and sinks into the earth. From thisplain we began the eastern ascent of the Sierra Nevada. Thepoisonous mineral dust, raised by the whirlwind, was excoriatingas we passed over this desert of the desert, seeing neither tree norstream after leaving the lost river. SACRAMENTO. 25 We declined here a pressing invitation to diverge and visitVirginia City, as we had declined at Salt Lake, Ogden, Cheyenne,and Omaha, to diverge to other points of mining and political in-terest. The frequency of these invitations is strongly suggestiveof the rapidity with which branch railroads and common roads areentwining the giant limbs of the new members of the republic. What is the secret of this sudden and prodigious increase ofnational energy in the prosecu
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