The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . ^. x^:i:>-. TOLTEC SEPULCHRAL STONE, TEOTIHUACAN,. KUINS OK CHAPTER IX. MOUNTAIN EXPLORATION. Travelling Companions—S. Lazarus Station—S. Anita—Ayotla—Tlalmanalco—Tenango del Aire—Amecameca—A Badly T>ighted Town—Rateros—Monte-Sacro—Volcaneros. On my first visit to the country, three-and-twenty years before, Ihad gone to the Sierra for the purpose of making a collection ofphotographs of Popocatepetl and the hills surrounding it. As mymen were getting my camera
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . ^. x^:i:>-. TOLTEC SEPULCHRAL STONE, TEOTIHUACAN,. KUINS OK CHAPTER IX. MOUNTAIN EXPLORATION. Travelling Companions—S. Lazarus Station—S. Anita—Ayotla—Tlalmanalco—Tenango del Aire—Amecameca—A Badly T>ighted Town—Rateros—Monte-Sacro—Volcaneros. On my first visit to the country, three-and-twenty years before, Ihad gone to the Sierra for the purpose of making a collection ofphotographs of Popocatepetl and the hills surrounding it. As mymen were getting my camera ready I amused myself in scratchingthe ground with my stick, when, to my great surprise, I discovereda bit of pottery and presently a whole vase ; I next tried the Mountain Exi-loration. 153 ground with my dagger and unearthed more vases, side by sidewith human remains. At that time, however, I was so absorbedby my photography, so ill prepared for gauging the importance ofmonuments and objects of antiquity regarding the country I wasvisiting, that I did not follow up my discovery ; but now, deeplyconscious of their interest, I returned to Popo
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