296 A TRIP TO MEXICO. 



nature has prodigaled here her richest scenes, her most startling 

 contrasts of heights and depths, of soaring peaks and yawning 

 chasms. The eternal snows of the arctics look down on the 

 yellowing grain fields of temperate climes, while these in their 

 turn overhang deep barancas, in which the luscious fruits of the 

 tropics are ripening. 



But over all this scene of wildness and of beauty is cast the 

 shadow of man's lawlessness. Danger lurks where nature revels. 

 It is the story of the tropics the world around lands rich in 

 nature's gifts, but poor in humanity 



"Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine, 

 And all save the spirit of man is divine." 



