PASSEOS 



ALAMEDA 



AQUEDUCTS. 



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tributed to their ancestral pedigree, and their race is consequently 

 mixed ; yet, impure as they are by descent they have not failed, like 

 all imitative inferiors to catch the manners and bearing of the aris- 

 tocracy. There is hardly a Mexican girl, — whose whole wardrobe 

 consists of her chemise, petticoat, rebozo, comb, looking-glass and 

 shoes, — who does not move along the street, when in full dress, 

 with the queenly step and coquettish display of eye and hair from 

 beneath her cotton rebozo, which we have just admired in the Mexi- 

 can dona. 



The costume of Mexican gentlemen is the usual European dress 

 worn by the same class among northern nations. But, in addition, 

 the broad folds of a massive cloak are always thrown over their 

 shoulders upon the slightest pretext or provocation of the weather, 

 whilst their nostrils are constantly refreshed by the fragrant fumes 

 of a cigar or cigaritto. 



The city of Mexico possesses two magnificent Passeos and an 

 Alameda in. which all classes of the people habitually recreate them- 

 selves. The city is supplied with water by splendid aqueducts, 

 bringing the limpid streams from the neighboring hills. 



TERMINATION OF AQUEDUCT IN CITY OF MEXICO. 



The Passeo Nuevo lies west of the city towards Chapultepec and 

 Tacubaya. It is a broad avenue, laid out tastefully amid the beau- 

 tiful meadows that surround the city, and is broken at intervals by 

 fountains of stone, and shaded by rows of stately trees. When the 



