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is not directly into the garden. 
One passes through a plain 
sort of hall, or ante-room, 
whose cheerless walls heighten 
the effect of the coining transi¬ 
tion. A door opens and one 
enters upon a spacious clois¬ 
tered corridor on the south 
side of an L of the house. 
This corridor appears to be 
the only architectural feature 
of the dwelling, which other¬ 
wise is very plain. Hanging 
in the arcade, in the pleasant 
Mexican fashion, are many 
flowering plants and cages of 
song-birds. The flooring of 
red tile is continued in a wide 
walk that descends by a gentle 
and uniform grade to the lower 
side of the garden. It should 
be said that the Borda place 
lies on the western side of 
the city, the garden located 
along the upper slope of the 
deep ravine that separates the 
main town from the outskirt 
population of San Anton, an 
Indian suburb where the curi¬ 
ous Cuernavaca pottery, inlaid 
with bits of broken crockery, 
is made. just outside the 
long wall on the lower side of 
the garden the verge of the 
barranca becomes very steep. 
The garden has a length of 
about 270 metres and a width 
of about 145 metres, or about 
1000 by 400 feet, which gives 
it an area of something over 
nine acres. 
The place has long been 
neglected. Its main function 
is now one of utility. Its 
present owners devote it to the 
cultivation of coffee, but they 
derive some little revenue from 
admission fees and photo¬ 
graphing privileges— the latter 
regulated according to the size 
of the camera. The walks 
and the structural features are 
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