Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-02-27
Cry % MEXICO, January 20, 1868

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Cry OF MEXICO, January 30, 1865,
The Mexioans are exceedingly swarthy--a
mixture Of the Indiana, negroes and Spanish.
There is no sang pttr here except among the
higher classes. The mixture among the COM
mon people would satisfy even Mr.. lincoln or
Wendell Phillips. Whelher il is the long con-
tinued civil war OF the mixture of races which
has reduced the MexicRns to their preseut con-
dition we will leave others TO decide but it is
very certain that either must lead. to misery
aud degradation The read from Vera Cruz
to the city passes through as beautiful a
country as, perhaps, the eye ever rested upou,
A Ftench sdeaat who travelled with us, and
who was sent cut by the French government
to examine into the works Of antiquity in
Mexico says that there is everything to prove
that this is the Oldest country in the world.
II so, we may expect to hear of the discovery
Of the site of the Garden of Eden right here
instead of on ghe 1other continent, where IL
vas always supposed 10 he. The cause Of
Mother Eyes fall must have greatly degen-
Grated since her time for ] have seen no
Mexican apples that would tempt ono to eat,
even though they were forbidden fruit
must, however, do Justice to the magnificent
fruits that literally lined the rooadie, grow.
ing there in wild proiusion. Immense or.
ange trees, covered with their golden fruit,
and flowers blooming on the same tree
forests OF bananas, with the rich fruit ripe
and ripening, aud pine apples and other
tropical fruits, was u sight for January that
would amply repay one for all the discomfors
Of the irip. vr rsrefL ~
Flowers, too, we're in prolusiOn all along
the road until we reached the mountain
peaks, covered with eternal snow. | noticed
the convolvuus, red and white honey-suckle,
double roses, pink and red, aud Other flowers
TINT were familiar ] saw one tree about the
size Of an apple tree, covered all over with
red flowers, aud not leaf on it From Vera
! Cruz to Cordova one is struck by the immense
| quantity of loose stones of every size aud
shape Wing on the surface OF the earth, as
though in some fierce CONFUSION of nature
| the mighty rocks had been shivered into frng-
rnenis aud scattered broadcast over the land
| For the purpose Of matchmaking It is very
| convenient arrangement especially for peo-
Vie who are not too fond Of work, After pass
| ing Puebla we came in sight of Popocatpetl,
which is GOO feet higher than Orizaba, and
alongside of this mountain peak is lesser
one called the White Woman which is sup
| posed 20 resemble a. woman in q reclining at.
| titude, dressed always in white, of course, Rs
| the SNOW never melts, even in midsummer.--
| AS we wound along the base OF these high
peaks, at an altitude of several thousand feet
above the level OF the sea, we felt as if in
transitu from earth to heaven The snow
! lay in patches along the roadside, and had We
ielt so disposed we might have had a nice
game Of snow ball" Still the atmosphere
wns not cold when the sun was shining, but
at night we needed allthe wrappings we could
command About noon the third day out we
| began to descend into the fertile Valley Of
Mexico, which is about eighty miles long aud
forty wide and before dark we reached this
city, which is grand and wonderful to behold,
AID fils the new conner with dreamy amaze
pent Shut out from all the world, seli-sup'
porting and selfsustaining, for seven centn.
res, its history and its splendor are as won
derful as the charming tales Of Scheherazade.