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English: Identifier: ournextdoorneigh00have
Title: Our next-door neighbor: a winter in Mexico Year: 1875 (1870s) Authors: Haven, Gilbert, Bishop, 1821-1880 Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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Text Appearing After Image: I lil PALISADES Ul REGLA. TRAMPING OUT THE SILVER. I55 This spot, unheard of by me unto this hour, unmentioned byany tourist I have read (and I never read one on Mexico), is nowformally introduced to the American public. If you come to Mex-ico, come to Pachuca; and if to Pachuca, to the basaltic ravine ofRegla. We lean over the balcony of our hospitable quarters, awaitingbreakfast, and see the horses tread out the silver. A yard eightyrods square, poco mas y tticnos, is laid down to this work. Beds ofblack mud are located over it, to the untrained eye precisely likethe earth about it. But how different to the eye that is trained !This black mud is silver, mixed badly with other earths, mixed alsowith salt, sulphate of copper, and quicksilver, that, under the pain-ful pressure of tramping steeds, are to liberate it and make it thebeauty and joy of man—and plague also, as are mosf beauties andjoys. Two hundred horses are engaged in tramping out the silver.Their tails are shaven, the m
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