::::;::::^x TWO bird -LOVERS IN MEXICO M'- 



Waito, photogritphcr 



CRATER OF POPOCATEPETL 



But Orizaba was still in plain sight to soothe the 

 most tired eyes. Lofty, sublime, chaste, it ever stands, 

 ■with that wonderful character common to snow-capped 

 peaks, of seeming to hang suspended in the air, with 

 no touch of the earth beneath. The old Aztec pyra- 

 mids of the Sun and Moon appeared, and were left 

 behind, and finally the white heads of Popocatepetl 

 and Iztaccihuatl came into view. We found that Ori- 

 zaba had left us few adjectives wherewith to exjiress 

 our admiration of the majestic beauty of these moun- 

 tains, the " Smoking Mountain " and his mate the 

 " Sleeping Woman ; " but we began to realize, what 

 became ever more true to us, that the volcanoes and 

 snow peaks of Mexico are among the greatest pleasures 



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