160 MEXICO. 
traveller as he emerges from between the hills where the buildings are 
nestled. You stand nearly a thousand feet above the valley, and, in the 
pure and rarefied air of the mountains, the vision is almost unlimited 
over a world-like panorama of crag, lake, city, vale, and volcano. I 
have already described the view from the opposite point of the' moun- 
tains, as you approach Mexico from the east, and I shall therefore 
not detain you with what could at best but amount to an amplified cata- 
logue of picturesque features in the most charming landscape of the 
world. 
