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Title: Mexico, the wonderland of the South
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Carson, William English, 1870-
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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as a rule, are pleasantlycool. As you travel inland from the Atlantic or Pacific coasts,the country constantly rises, until in the interior it reachesan altitude of six or seven thousand feet. A good idea ofthis peculiar topography is given by the following cut,which shows the profile of the country between the ports ofTampico and Manzanillo on the eastern and western coasts. 18 MEXICO At an altitude of four thousand feet or more, a sub-tropical region known as the tierra templada, or temperateland, is reached, where the climate is perpetually delightful. A third region, six thousand feet or more above sea-level,is called the tierra fria or cold land, although it is notactually cold, for the mean temperature is not lower thanthat of central Italy. In brief, perpetual summer, eternalspring, and a temperature rarely cold enough for snow orice are the climatic joys which Mexico offers to the shiv-ering American who travels southward in midwinter toescape from the blizzards of the north.
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THE BLIND BEGGAR.One penny, sefior, for Gods sake. CHAPTER II FROM ORIZABA TO THE CAPITAL Nearly four centuries ago the soldiers of Cortes, march-ing over the mountains from the coast to the Aztec capital,came to an Indian town situated in a beautiful valley,intersected by rushing streams which kept it forever green.The natives called the place Ahauializapan or joy in thewaters. The Spaniards, with their usual avidity, tookpossession of this attractive spot, but after heroic effortsto pronounce its name, they wisely changed it to Orizaba.Under Spanish rule, a new town arose on the site of the old,and this became, in time, one of the most important placesin Mexico. For generations Orizaba was a haven of refugefor people who fled from the pestilent coast during theyellow-fever season to seek health in the pure mountainair. In later times it was a favorite resort of the EmperorMaximilian, who, during his brief reign, often sought restand quiet in the quaint old town. To-day it is a popul

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