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and of surpassing beauty throughout the 
entire distance. After the train reached 
Nogalles, a town which is half in the 
United States and half in Mexico, it was 
made up in regular Mexican fashion of 
first, second, and third class coaches; 
and, from the number of Mexicans 
aboard, it appeared they were as much 
given to travel as their more active 
neighbors of the North; with this differ¬ 
ence, however : that where they can save 
a penny by going second or third class 
they do so. This fact removes an inter¬ 
esting feature of Mexican travel from the 
sight of the average American tourist, 
for, as a rule, he prefers comfort to the 
study of the picturesque in his fellow- 
travelers. 
When we reached Hermosillo, a place 
of about ten thousand people, the sta- 
