. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 3 ililes. n-iohbourin? towns. The Peiion de los Banos, as this eminence is called, is the source of a copious ferruginous spring, and here geologists have found some fossil human remains. The Yiga Canal, whose waters reach the capital at its south-east extremity, is derived from Lake Xochimilco, or the " Flower-garden," one of the southern basins of the Mexican valley. This canal traverses a low-lying district cultivated by Indian maiket-gardeners, and their plots are commonly designated by the same term, ehinampas, which was also applied to the f
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 3 ililes. n-iohbourin? towns. The Peiion de los Banos, as this eminence is called, is the source of a copious ferruginous spring, and here geologists have found some fossil human remains. The Yiga Canal, whose waters reach the capital at its south-east extremity, is derived from Lake Xochimilco, or the " Flower-garden," one of the southern basins of the Mexican valley. This canal traverses a low-lying district cultivated by Indian maiket-gardeners, and their plots are commonly designated by the same term, ehinampas, which was also applied to the floating islands of the Aztecs, formerly moored in hundreds on the surface of Lake Texcoco. But Lake Chalco, or the "Emerald," forming an eastern continuation of Xochimilco and encircling a cone with a perfectly regular crater, bears in this respect a much more close
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