THE GREATEST VOECANOES OF MEXICO 



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NO. 22. the: actual '^TOP^'' OF ORIZABA IS ABOUT 2 OR 3 i^K^^T SQUARE; 



cent view of both mountains from the 

 lands at an ahitucle of 5,000 feet and 

 lower. 



Photo No. 8. What was presumably 

 Iztaccihuatl's crater, now filled in and 

 covered up. The hump on the left, snow- 

 covered, is one of the ''breasts" of the 

 mountain. 



Photo No. 9. Mr A. Melgarejo at the 

 snow line, about 13,500 feet. Showing 

 the picturesque but cumbersome costumes 

 of the guides. Under the worst condi- 

 tions a pick and shovel are sufficient to 

 insure a safe climb. 



Photo No. 10. Xinantecatl, "The Nude 

 Man," or Volcano of Toluca, lying about 

 30 miles southwest of the city of Toluca 

 and about 90 miles west of Popocatepetl. 

 The photograph, taken by Mr S. L. 

 Wonson, shows plainly the great wide 

 crater of the volcano, as well as the limit 

 of vegetation, about 13,000 feet above 

 the sea. The highest peak of this moun- 

 tain, the dark, sharp peak on the left- 

 hand side of the crater, rises to 15,055 

 feet. Its well-wooded slopes are mag- 

 nificent cattle ranges on the side shown 



and good game preserves on the other 

 side, the whole mountain furnishing- first- 

 class timber. 



This is one of the oldest volcanoes in 

 existence, there being no record of its 

 eruptions, which, to judge from the size 

 of its crater, must have been terrific. 

 The ascent up to the interior of the cra- 

 ter is extremely easy, being done on 

 horseback from Calimaya, a small town 

 located northeast of the mountain, about 

 15 miles from the crater. 



Photo No. II. A general view of the 

 interior of the crater. The foreground 

 shows one of the two lakes which the 

 crater contains. The largest of these 

 two lakes lies behind the hill seen in the 

 middle of the crater. On the left, above 

 the snow, appears the highest peak. See 

 photo No. 13. 



Photo No. 12. General view of the 

 great lake, which measures about three- 

 quarters of a mile in length by about 

 half a mile in width. Its waters are 

 perfectly clear, and, due undoubtedly to 

 the depth of the crater, as blue as the 

 ocean. This reservoir must, through 



