VI CONTENTS. 



Letter V. — The City of Mexico — Dispersion of our Train, and 

 Subsequent Arrangements — Pursuits of the Trio — Description of the 

 Valley and City— The Environs of the City— The Calzadas— The 

 Aqueducts — The Route of San Augustin — Optical Deception — Haci- 

 enda San Antonio ; Description of — The Pedigral — Culture of the Ma- 

 guey — Buildings of the Hacienda — San Augustin ; View from its Envi- 

 rons — The Scenery of the Valley — Volcanoes and volcanic Phenomena, 

 present and past — Routes from the Valley of Mexico — Tacuba — San 

 Cosmo — Apopotla- — The Cupressus distieha — Chapultepec — Guada- 

 loupe — The Patron Saint of Mexico— Nuestra Senora de los Remideos 

 — The Climate of Mexico — Earthquakes 80 



Letter VI. — Civilities to Foreigners in the City of Mexico — The 

 Opinions of Foreigners — The French Barber — The Belgian Host — The 

 German Saddler — The Corps d'Opera — The Palaces — The Canals- — 

 The Market — The Alguazil — Shops — The upper Classes, male and fe- 

 male — The Alameda — The Paseo de las Vigas — Military — Mexican 

 Habits — State of the Country and of Parties — The Holy Week — Influx 

 of Strangers of all Classes to Mexico- — The Plaza Mayor — The Booths 

 — Holy Thursday — Church visiting — Popular Amusements — The Rat- 

 tles — Judas Iscariot — Processions on Good Friday — Saturday before 

 Easter — The Termination of the Holy Week — Christianity in Mexico 

 — Public Institutions — The Museum — Antiquities — The ancient Mex- 

 ican Calendar — Antiquities 10S 



Letter VII. — Excursion in the Environs — The Calzada — Penon 

 Viejo — Lake Tezcuco— Hacienda, Chapingo, Huejutla— The Bano di 

 Montezuma— Tezcosingo — Tezcuco — The Contador — Remains of the 

 Mastodon — Singular Fact — San Juan Teotihuacan — The Houses of 

 the Sun and Moon ; Description of — History of Anahuac — Peopling of 

 the Continent of America — Origin of these pyramidal Monuments — 

 Time and Manner in which Men and Animals reached the American 

 Continent — Entry into the House of the Moon — Terra cotta Heads 

 and obsidian Knives — The Fainting Stone — Tecania — Zumpango — 

 Huehuetoca — The Desague Real — Guautitlan — Tanep&ntla — Return 

 to the Capital .13a 



Letter VIII. — The Opera at Mexico — Bullfights — The Desierto — 

 Scenery of the Valley of Mexico — Departure for the Coast — Tlalpam — 

 Route of the Cruz del Marques — Cuernavaca — Visit to the Teocalli of 

 Xochicalco — The House of Flowers — Yantipec — Cuautla Amilpas — 

 Disagreeable Adventure — Zacualpam Amilpas — Base of Popocatepetl 

 — San Mateo — Atlisco — Cholula 167 



Letter IX. — Cholula — The Great Pyramid — Quetzalcoatl — La Pu- 

 ebla — The English dray Horses — Route to Vera Cruz — The Pinal — 

 Ojo de Agua — Orizava — Perote — Las Vigas — The CofTre de Perote 

 and its Lavas — The Alps and the Cordillera — Jalapa — The Litter — 

 Puente del Rey — Vera Cruz — The Roadstead — Sail from New Spain 

 — The Vomito Prieto — Conclusion 203 



