Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-09-15
We at once visited the United


whom we foups to be quite a gentle
man, and witaS,om- we had a LONG
-.'~- ana 4erestlng conversa-
ton, learning much to our benefit
The Consul General has magnifcent]y
furnished apartments up STAIRS in q
large stone building near the. centre
oisthe city.
We then visited the grand old cas-
tie of .Chapultipec, which lies some
thfee miles Northwest Of the city
The enclosure is some hundred and
fifty acres, covered with a dense
growth of immense evergreen fir
trees, and in the middle of it lone
hill rises up several hundred feet,
almost perpendicular, every side OF
which is precepice, and on the top
of which the castle stands. The
grounds have drive ways all through
them, even a beautiful driveway is
engineered up the side of the hill to
the very door of the castle, where
carriages travel up with little diff
Guilty. The castle is very large,
strong and low building and covers
the top Of the hill, except a yard IN
front, with a tall fence around it,
with large gates open and an armed
soldier marchi} back and forth
always keeps g1tsrd. There is a mill
tary school in the castle and quite a
number of cadets attending The
interior of the castle is something
grand, beyond all description-rooms
fitted up and furnished for kings and
emperors, draped IN the finest silk
and satin, with mouldiugs; of gold
and precious stones. The castle has
a subterranean entrance for use when
4 We stood in the yard, on
W. ~@;is reeinic@ in front Of
the castle and looked down on the
grand old City of Mexico, with its
many suburban towns and canals, all
draped in verdure, with the lake,
valley and two twin perpetually snow
capped VOLCANOES in the distance,
which is view fit for the gods. We
stood for a long time looking and
could hardly think it real; it seemed
more like dreamy visit TO fairy.
land, and it was with regret that We
turned our backs nit and descended
the hills to the park below, in the
same grounds, at the foot of the hill,
under the huge moss-covered fir
trees. There are fountains, deer,
parks, lakes with swan on them and
a geological garden full of Mexican
wild animals, such as mountain lions,
wild boars, coyotes, monkeys, etc.
From Chapultepec to the city is
some three miles, which is the boule-
ward, q wide driveway with wide
sidewalks and a double row of trees
on each side, and at regular inter-
walls it widens into gloriettas, with a
large monument in the ceutre and
stone seats all around. 1t is as level
as floor, well swepped and sprinkled
and every evening, and especially
Sunday evenings, sight worth see
irr travels upon it: "Mexiean arls-
..ocracy" on wheels, carriages by the
thousand and of all kinds, from the
two-wheeled English hackney cart,
with the driver perched on small
stooll OF the back to lhe magni6cently
grand French car, with its gold
mountings and arched glass front,
carriages which cost five hundred
thousand dollars, driven by real Eng
lish drivers and drawn by the finest
imported horses that money could
buy. They drive rapidly, one behind
the other, all in line, up one side and
down the other, making long turn
at the ends, and two lines of mounted
police stand in the middle at regular
intervals all along. These carriages
contain the fsmilies of the aristocracy
ofMexico, talking, smoking and enjoy
ing themselves in fine style. And
quite often ones eyes fall upon the
face of most bewitching goddess OF
the tropics as she sails by, all decked
in gay.colored silk, with her jewels
shining as stars in a clear sky. AT
the entrance of the boulevard is a
most wonderful master piece of mar
BILE carving, representing an eques-
tian statue of Columbus with scroll
in his hand, standing on pedestal
The carving of the saddle, bride
hair of the horse, tail, ETC., is so very
perfect that it appears real; also fur
ther on the two statues of the nude
Indian kings, showing their sinewy
forms, are grand.
In this letter | lave no space to
tell of our visit to the National
Museum, where we saw the Aztec
mummies three hundred years old
the aSacrifcial Stone," ETC., etc. As
my letter is already too long, and
having hardly commenced to tell o'
what we saw, / will close, as it il
about as well to stop in one place as
another. JAMES +. BEARD.
How's This9
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