Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-10-30
LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1917

media, the fashionables, every evening, take
q turn or two along this drive. On festivals,
1t Is crowded All the equipages of the
city must be there, and il is the mode for
every person Of consideration, or who de-
sires consideration, to posses an equipage.
II y not thought " exactly proper" for a
lady TO walk, except TO mass--or, some
ames, when she goes shopping. The coach,
on all gala DAYS, is sure to APP
pear on the Passo, with its fair burden
dressed in the French style, as for dinner
party or ball.
On approaching this charming drive, the
whole plain of the valley of Mexico is at
once revealed to you, without passing a
dirty suburb. On your right, is the cypress
covered and castle-crowned Hill of Chapul-
.tepee--farnerly the site, it is alledged, of
one of Montezuma's palaces; before you
and behind, stretch two immense aqueducts
the one coming from the hills--the other
from greater distance, near Tacubaya,
and screening that village as it leans against
the first slope of the Western mountains
On your left, are the volcanoes, on whose
SUBMITS the last rosy rays of sunset are
resting. The gay throng dispense as the
moon rises from behind the mountains,
pouring its clear light, BRIGHT as the day in
other lands, over the tranquil landscape.--
The moonlight of Mexico is marvelously
beautiful. That city, you remember, is II
500 feet above the sea, and nearly that
number of feet nearer the stars than we
are; the atmosphere, consequently, is more
lrarified, and the light comes as it were,
pellucid from heaven; you seem able to
touch stars, so brilliantly do they stand out
relieved against the background of an in-
Itensely blue sky Stroling on such nights
| il Mexico; when | saw the sharp lines of
the tower and temple COME boldly out with
shape, and even color, almost as bright, yet
softer than MONDAY, have often been
tempted to say, that the moonlight you get at
home, (much as it is the theme of poets and
loyers,) is but secondhand stuff, compared
with that of Mexico And so with the eli
mates. Between the sea-shore at Vera
Cruz, and the volcanoes whose eternal
SHOWS hang over Mexico, you have every
variety of climate in the world. In the
valley, there is a perpetual spring. For six
months in the year, (the winter months as
/ they are called,) rain never falls; during the
other six months, showers occur almost
daily. Ii is never hot-never very cold
and YOU may wear your cloak or your sum-
mer dress the whole year, according to the
temper of your nervous system. One side
OF the street is always too warm at noon.
Cold and sIeeting as il is here in January,
the roses are already blooming freshly in
the gardens of Mexico. Nor is there any
lperceptihle change of foliage on the forest
trees; the new leaves push off the old ones
with &c gentle force,v and the regeneration
of the seasons is effected without the pro-
cess Of fading, willing, whitening, and dy-
ing, which makes with us the melancholy
ftlays of autumn, " the saddest Of the years.
q TO look at tie external world, you would
say there there was no such thing as death
in Mexico. The rose and the leaf you adj
nllre to-day, are replaced tomorrow by
fresh buds and renewed verdure. t