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were driven from the Aztec capital in the year 1520. The image 

 of the Virgin of Remedios, has been generally kept in a chapel in 

 this village, and has often been brought to the capital in seasons 

 of danger, distress or disease. 



Tlanepantla ; Quautitlan ; San Tomas ; San Cristoval 

 Xaltocan ; Tonantla ; Tehuiloyuca ; Zumpango ; Huehue- 

 toca ; are towns and villages north of Mexico. 



San Juan de Teotihuacan, and Otumba, lie east of the lake 

 of Tezcoco, and are interesting for the fertility of their neighbor- 

 hood and for their antiquities. 



A ridge of lofty mountains, west of the capital, rising from the 

 plain beyond the limits of Tacubaya separates the valley of Mexico 

 from the valley of Toluca, in which is found the town of Toluca 

 at the foot of the porphyritic mountains of San Miguel Tutucuitlal- 

 pillo, at an elevation of 8,606 feet above the level of the sea. It is 

 a beautiful town, celebrated for its soap and candle factories; and 

 the epicures of hams and sausages, procure their choicest dainties 

 from its neighborhood. Lerma, lies on the banks of the pond from 

 which the river Lerma springs; and Istlahuaca, twelve leagues from 

 Toluca, is found in a spur of the same valley. 



THE CASCADE OF REGL A . 



