Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . d kirtles, as if spreadwith a thick, richly colored rug. A grade above the openmarket is the Parian^ a bazaar of small shops, in which 5* 106 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PRO,VIXCES. goods, sales-peojDle, and customers alike might all be putupon canvas only with the most vivid of hues. I give some ex-amples of thestreet architectureof the more im-portant approach tomany is under thewelcome jportales^shady in sunshineand dry in thewet. I^ot a fewof the shops havebeen old Spanishpalace
Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . d kirtles, as if spreadwith a thick, richly colored rug. A grade above the openmarket is the Parian^ a bazaar of small shops, in which 5* 106 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PRO,VIXCES. goods, sales-peojDle, and customers alike might all be putupon canvas only with the most vivid of hues. I give some ex-amples of thestreet architectureof the more im-portant approach tomany is under thewelcome jportales^shady in sunshineand dry in thewet. I^ot a fewof the shops havebeen old Spanishpalaces before be-ing adapted totheir present transferred tomy sketch-book abit from the lead-ing merceria (dry-goods store) of theimportant minorcity of Pueblawhich I thoughtparticularly inter-esting. It wascalled, after theprevailing fash-ion, The City of Mexico. The entire front — uponwhich still remained the carved escutcheon, showing thatit had been the residence of a family of rank—was facedup between carvings, in a gay pattern in tiles, the figuresglazed, the rest an unglazed ground of MERCERIA AT PUEBLA. SOCIAL LIFE, AXD SOME XOTABLE IXSTITUTIOXS. 107 IX. SOCIAL LIFE, AXD SOME XOTABLE IXSTITUTIOXS. I. The persons who once lived in these old Spanish pal-aces, and descendants of the titles of nobility existing be-fore the Independance, are still much esteemed in a certainsmall circle in the country. There are pointed out to youthose who should by right be marquises and counts, andthe titles are occasionally given them. The Mexican no-bles, from the time of Cortes down, lived in magnificentstyle in their day. The Count of Eegla, who has left histrace after him in many directions, must have enjoyedalmost the state of royalty. A single hacienda of his inMichoacan was thirty leagues in length by seventeen inbreadth, and, sloping down from the temperate plateauto the tropic, comprised in its extent the products of al-most every clime. He fitted out two ships of the l
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