. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . d and the thermometer down totwenty-seven or twenty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. But, some-how, you hardly notice it after the awful agony of getting out ofbed is over, and, as I said before, by 8 oclock everything is sharp changes of temperature, however, are anything butunhealthful. In the last year, there have been at least a hundredand fifty people living at this camp and during that period therehas not been a single case of illness, nor an ounce
. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . d and the thermometer down totwenty-seven or twenty-eight degrees Fahrenheit. But, some-how, you hardly notice it after the awful agony of getting out ofbed is over, and, as I said before, by 8 oclock everything is sharp changes of temperature, however, are anything butunhealthful. In the last year, there have been at least a hundredand fifty people living at this camp and during that period therehas not been a single case of illness, nor an ounce of medicine,until my esteemed nephew and myself unlimbered the small-sizedapothecary shop which female solicitude had provided. This sec- 52 A GLIMPSE OF OLD MEXICO tion, in short, should be shunned hke a pestilence by doctors anddruggists, but for every one else it is all right. We are located in a kind of transition land. This is certainly atemperate climate. Quite as much so as around thebay of San Francisco, with the difference that the nights are infin-itely colder. But not more than a quarter of a mile from our. Looking- Down the Canyon, Ilom California Mines Main Tunnel. house or shack, to be more accurate, there is a kind of jumpingoff place where you can look down at a river valley, 4,000 feet be-low, and into the genuine torrid zone where the scorching sundrives every living thing to cover under its meridian rays and A GLIMPSE OF OLD MEXICO 53 where all the forms of animal and vegetable life are strictly trop-ical. You can stand there and readily shoot a rifle ball into thevalley. Somewhere on the mountain, the two forms of botanicallife, the tropical and temperate, meet. But this meeting point isfrom the nature of the country, on so sharp a line of demarcation
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