SIX MONTHS IN 



MEXICO. 



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CHAPTER VI. 



Puebla de los Angeles. — Its Streets. — Pavements. — Houses. 

 — Cathedral. — Churches. — San Filipe Neri, or House of 

 Religious Retreat. — Police. — Manufactories, &c. 



About eight o^clock in the evening we ar- 

 rived at Puebla. We entered by the bridge 

 of San Francisco, with a fine convent on one 

 side, and the Almeida or public walk on the 

 other, and went through the crowded and 

 busy streets, the bustle and hurry of which 

 presented a new scene to us. We crossed 

 the grand square or market-place, and passing 

 the cathedral, a few minutes walk brought us 

 to the house of a merchant, on whom our 

 friend, Mr. Hall, quartered us during our 

 stay. Here we had every reason to be 



