. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. VIEW OF THE PORFIRIO DIAZ TUNNEL, GUANAJUATO. CHAPTER XXIX GUANAJUATO THE peculiar situation of Guanajuato, the capital city, with its crooked andirregular streets and its fortress-like houses, makes it look very ancientand feudal, and, oddly, amid all this antiquity stretch the wires of the tele-graph and telephone, linking the old civilization with the new in a way that isstrangely The heart of the city is the Plaza de Mejia Mora, wherethere is a tablet which states that here was born Benito Leon Acosta,
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. VIEW OF THE PORFIRIO DIAZ TUNNEL, GUANAJUATO. CHAPTER XXIX GUANAJUATO THE peculiar situation of Guanajuato, the capital city, with its crooked andirregular streets and its fortress-like houses, makes it look very ancientand feudal, and, oddly, amid all this antiquity stretch the wires of the tele-graph and telephone, linking the old civilization with the new in a way that isstrangely The heart of the city is the Plaza de Mejia Mora, wherethere is a tablet which states that here was born Benito Leon Acosta, Mexicosdistinguished engineer and man of science. It is one of the quaintest and most delightful places in the world, a walled city among the mountains, set upon the sides of heights so steep that the houses 421 422 MEXICO seem to cling to the rock, and that a misstep might precipitate one into the midstof the plaza three or four hundred feet below. This lovely, bewildering spot is full of lanes and archways and windingmarket-places, where the picturesque people seem t
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