| Show VALLEY OF MEXICO vve ive began our early march next morning and kept winding round hills bills covered wits with thick thlik woods of wines and carpeted with a variety of wild flowers until about eleven oclo oc lock loek clr cir when we reached a meson on the summit ol 01 the mountain and obtained a view of the far famed valley of vf mexico descal description is tame when one tries to convey the impression which this scene usually makes on all ail who bee see it for tor uhe the first time Itis it Is certainly cert alny the most moat magnificent kleiv in mexico exico perhaps of the peculiar description the first in the world at an elevation of about 2000 feet the spectator sees as if spread at hla hia feet like a map the whole of the we valle valie valley vailey Y of mexico j its circumference at the base of the mountains which form the side of the mighty basin miles and at the crest of the mountains the whole of the plain from the height on which the spectator stands is distinctly defined and delineated owing to the remarkable transparency and purity of the atmosphere the towers and nd pire spire i of the city of mexico twenty five mues ml ea distant are distinctly seen peering out from the tollage and trees almost the only part of the valley where trees are to be seeh seen seen been by the by is anat round the city the remainder of the valley presents the uniform appearance of a large larce green plain dotted with white churches churchea spires and hacienda haciendas s 1 and containing contain ink ini several large sheets of water the remains ot the lakes which are said baid to have once nearly covered the whole valey valley several small insulated mountains may also be distinctly discern d the only large objects that rise on the surface of the vast unbroken ii green plain the mountains of tep tel tei beland and its brother giant rise about twenty miles to the he left of the spot where the spectator la is standing though owing to the bright atmosphere and the sun shining en on the snow thy seem only two or three miles dista t tae whole of this beautiful valley is hemmed in by a complete circle of stupendously rugged and dark looking looting mountains the ro agh but buti auti lime settings of nature to one of her most inimitable pictures a most perfect berfect combination of the toe sublime e and E beautiful yes yea seen from that elevation the valley of mexico is a most glorious and magnificent ent sight eight but til distance lends enchant ment to the view and as we descend into it its beauties vanish the toe lakes become marshes the fields are not cultivated iho tho villages are mud and the inhabitants wretched looking peons geons in rags and squalid misery an au unfortunate chap in norwich bs ct I 1 who had hung a pair of pants panta near an open window and left them there two weeks ez experienced perien ced a delicate sensation the other day whence went to t 0 put them on and thrust one of his legs lege inada neat nest |
