. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. at hasmet with great success and the products of some of the gardens have demon-strated the fact that the Mexican Indian is a farmer by nature, and it is thoughtthat this movement will grow and be a valuable aid to that class. San Angel, Coyoacan and San Augustin, are extremely pretty villages inthe vicinity of the lake. Coyoacan is almost a continuation of San Angel. Both villages serve asa popular summer resort for the rich dwellers in the City of Mexico. It wasat this place that Cortestook up his residence forseveral
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. at hasmet with great success and the products of some of the gardens have demon-strated the fact that the Mexican Indian is a farmer by nature, and it is thoughtthat this movement will grow and be a valuable aid to that class. San Angel, Coyoacan and San Augustin, are extremely pretty villages inthe vicinity of the lake. Coyoacan is almost a continuation of San Angel. Both villages serve asa popular summer resort for the rich dwellers in the City of Mexico. It wasat this place that Cortestook up his residence forseveral months after thetotal destruction of the an-cient Tenochtitlan. Herehe founded , too;and in his last will andtestament he expressed adesire to be buried here, inwhatever part of the worldhe should end his request was not com-plied with. Coyoacan was alwaysCortess favorite village, and it is even now one of the prettiest in Mexico, having one of the handsomestvillage churches in that country. The Penon baths are one of the great attractions of AMERICAN EMBASSY. 174 MEXICO These boiling springs are said to contain sulphate of lime, carbonic acid, andmuriate of soda, and the I ndians make salt in their neighborhood much as they did in the time of Montezuma, with the differ-ence, as Humboldt informs us, that theyuse copper caldrons, while their ancestorsused vessels of clay. The solitary-lookingbaths are ornamented with odd-lookingheads of cats and monkeys, which grinupon you with a mixture of the sinisterand facetious that is rather appalling. On one of the sites where these min-eral springs are to be found still stands alittle church or chapel which dates backto the beginning of the colonial period,and suggests that, like the Pocito deGuadalupe, the Penon waters may havebeen used, with prayer and supplication,for effecting miraculous cures. La Viga and the floating gardens ormarkets form another diverting and in-tensely interesting phase of life in thi
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