Tropical America . there is an alameda at the eastern end ofthe town, where a long stone causeway, with broad para-pets and benches, is shaded with trees. This causewayis spanned by an aqueduct, and it is a delightful placefor outdoor music. Since I have compared the eccle-siastical architecture of Mexico with that of SouthAmerica, it may be well to add that with the exceptionof Rio de Janeiro and Santiago in Chili there are nocities in the far South possessing such artistic plazas andalamedas as are seen in Aztec land. Spanish regularitjrand landscape gardening have left their impress uponMex
Tropical America . there is an alameda at the eastern end ofthe town, where a long stone causeway, with broad para-pets and benches, is shaded with trees. This causewayis spanned by an aqueduct, and it is a delightful placefor outdoor music. Since I have compared the eccle-siastical architecture of Mexico with that of SouthAmerica, it may be well to add that with the exceptionof Rio de Janeiro and Santiago in Chili there are nocities in the far South possessing such artistic plazas andalamedas as are seen in Aztec land. Spanish regularitjrand landscape gardening have left their impress uponMexican cities, but in the aboriginal blood there musthave been a strain of passion for decorative effect. From Morelia I made an excursion with one of thestudents of the college to Tzintzuntzan. The villagewas formerly inaccessible, but it is now readily reachedfrom Patzcuaro, the terminus of the Morelia branch ofthe National Railway. From a picturesque hacienda,where a clean bed and delicious white fish broiled to a. A CIRCUIT OF MEXICAN TOWNS 311 turn are to be had, a little steamer crosses the lake toErangaricuaro, a curious Indian village, where bargesare filled with lumber cut in the mountains near started before seven in the morning with a doubleportion of delicious coffee from Ur4upam and two eggs;for breakfast in the Indian fonda at Erangaricuaro wouldbe delayed until two oclock in the afternoon. The sunwas hardly high enough above the eastern mountains tolight up the weather-beaten face of the hospitable plan-tation-house, with its farm buildings and orderly kitchengarden; but the lake was already revealed in the samebewitching loveliness which enchanted Humboldt, thewisest and least imaginative of travellers. There arelarger lakes in Mexico, Chapala, near Guadalajara, be-ing three times as long; but there is none to be com-pared with it in beauty. Lake Patzcuaro is well named,in the Tarascan tongue, the place of delights. It isencircled with mountains and sealed w
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