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^m SAXTA FE. 



^ iThe Town.— Spanish Nomenclature. -^The Indian PaW-wow.—Tlie Fonda.— 

 » mOlU f^^otograpliing tlie Fair Sex of New Mexico.— Arriyal of Surveying Party 

 F f, n °^ ^^^ Mountains of Colorado.— Tlie Baih. — Election of Delegate to 

 ifcena Congress.— Eailway Meeting.— Santa Fe Traders.— General Palmer and 



• mk ^^ "^'isitors. — Hides amons:st the Mountains. 



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YicbHE fortnight spent at Santa Fe passed pleasantly and quickly 



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passed, there seems hut yery 



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llel, #late. The town itself could never agree with the preconceiyed 

 not sP^^s of any one ; for it disappoints you wofully on first 

 ppearancGj being neither romantically situated nor pictur- 

 terestin^^^^^ty built, haying neither broad streets, fine churches, nor 

 3JJ1 fff ^^aint old houses. All, or nearly all, the dwellings are of one 

 toiyj many of the largest coyer several acres of ground, 

 nd all haye verandahs running round the greater part of their 

 ircumference. They are all made of adobe, either white- 

 rashod or bare ; and yery comfoi-table they are, with their 

 olid walls, cleanly-swept floors, and fine large rooms. There 

 -I'e thi'ee Eoman Catholic churches, all more or less dilapi- 

 dated, but containing some fine Trench painted glass windows 

 md a few good paintings ; a nunnery, a bishop's palace, and 

 L Protestant church, minus its roof. Although Protestant zeal 

 ice burned sufficiently bright to raise the walls and tower 

 ' their proper height, it never succeeded in giving the build- 



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^g a roof The plaza is beautifully shaded with rows of 

 3otton-wood trees, which surround a larfire m-ass plot, with a 



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