Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . exceptionally good of the square hives, painted in colors, were oftenseen districted into little streets on the hill-side, or atthe mouth of some small canon, like a miniature city. Before reaching Don Juan Forsters the old mission ofSan Luis Key is encountered, in the hamlet of the samename. It is almost Venetian in aspect. The whole ex-terior was at one time faced with a diagonal pattern re-calling that of the Ducal Palace. The pile was ruinedby a Mormon contingent of the
Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . exceptionally good of the square hives, painted in colors, were oftenseen districted into little streets on the hill-side, or atthe mouth of some small canon, like a miniature city. Before reaching Don Juan Forsters the old mission ofSan Luis Key is encountered, in the hamlet of the samename. It is almost Venetian in aspect. The whole ex-terior was at one time faced with a diagonal pattern re-calling that of the Ducal Palace. The pile was ruinedby a Mormon contingent of the American forces engagedin the conquest of the State. Parts of the heavy adobewalls and buttresses have fallen in, and resolved them-selves back into their original element as mere earth-heaps. The images have been shot and hacked down,and a yawning cavern was excavated behind the main SAX DIEGO, AXL THE MEXICAX FROXTIER. 465 altar in search of fancied treasure. Upon a floor strewnwith such debris and with fragments of red tiles the day-light falls curiously, through holes in the broken roofand SAN LUIS REY. The railroad traverses some striking natural notable is the Temecula Canon, a gorge of a wildand grand description, ten miles in length, through theCoast Eange. A brawling stream runs down its gorge was filled with a busy force, as we passed, ter-racing up the track along its sides, sometimes on thenatural rock, sometimes on a cyclopean retaining-wall ofimmense bowlders. Toward evening every day the firingof heavy blasts reverberated up the defile like a cannon-ade. The main part of tlie laboring force consisted ofChinamen. They had utilized the shelving ledges andrandom nooks by the stream for their tents and cooking-ovens with great ingenuity. The Mexicans and Indians,who formed the contingent next in importance, w^ere inevery way less provident. The surveyors were foundpleasant and hospitable fellows, as surveyors at the sceneof their labor
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