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Title: Travels over the table lands and cordilleras of Mexico. During the years 1843 and 44; including a description of California ... and the biographies of Iturbide and Santa Anna
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Gilliam, Albert M
Subjects: Iturbide, Agustín de, 1783-1824 Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876 Mexico -- Description and travel Pacific Coast (Calif.) Pacific Coast (Mexico)
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. W. Moore (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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is—and it is not—a contradiction in humanity, religion andnature. When the mind of the traveller resorts to the earlyhistory of the country, and beholds the formidable naturalbarriers which the Spaniards had to overcome, he is aston-ished at the remarkable rapidity witli which the aborigineswere subdued. The spirit of discovery and of conquestonce kindled, the romantic excitement it produced was over-powering, and with an enthusiasm which nothing but a likecause could engender, and an avarice never to be satiated—the Spaniards swept over plain and mountain with an irre-sistible power, and subdued a continent, the dominion ofwhich extended to the limits of Cancer on the north, andCapricorn on the south. On this night I bivouaced on a greater elevation than Ihad before done, and on the next morning I had the plea-sure to behold a fine frost, with which my blankets werecovered. It was the only one I had seen in the Qountry,and I could not withhold the temptation of touching it with
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TRAVELS IN MEXICO. OQJ my fingers, and cooling my hands with the white dew ofheaven. It was, however, short lived, but as long as itlasted I could not take my eyes from the pure sight, or sup-press the thoughts of my own native hills of Virginia. My guide informed me that I could, on that day, reachCaneles, and the cheering news seemed to animate mywhole party wdth the thoughts, that one more ride wouldput us beyond the danger of Indians, and into an inhabitedcountry. Shortly after we set out, we had to ascend amountain, which brought us in view of a snow-capped peakwhich reached far above any other point. Having de-scended the opposite side, we travelled along the bed of ariver for some four or five miles. The stream w^as shutup between two mountains, whose rocky and precipitousheights prohibited a pathway along its sides. Many werethe curiosities, and the freaks of nature that I beheld in thesingular formations of the rocks. On the top of a high pointon one of these mountains was a

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