DOWA' THE MEXICAN PLATEAU. 



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or City Hall ; the Stale Palace ; the Library ; the Parian, or great bazaar ; and in 

 the suburbs, the ruins of the Black Fort, captured by the Americans in 1847 ; 

 El Obispado, or Bishop's Palace, on a hill commanding a magnificent view ; the 

 Cemetery; El Capillo, or chapel, across the river; the two picturesque mountains. 





BEYOND THE BORDER. 



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Li Silla (the Saddle), 5,000 feet high, and La Mitra (the 

 Mitre) ; the bull-ring; the cock-pit; and the stretches of farms 

 and gardens yet cultivated in the primitive manner of early 

 times. To a stranger, this city, founded three hundred years ago, and its inhabit- 

 ants, will be exceedingly interesting, as both represent and are typical of the Mexico 

 of six hundred miles beyond. 



SALTILLO. 



A place yet more charming is Saltillo, sixty-seven miles farther, on the slopes 

 of the table-land, among the mountains, yet with soft airs, blooming gardens, 

 orchards, fields, springs, and streams. Its great Plaza, with its flowers and trees, 

 as well as the entire city, is supplied with pure spring-water, conducted from the 



