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Title: Mexico, the wonderland of the South
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Carson, William English, 1870-
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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he fish with dynamite. Up in the mountains above the valley the air was de-lightfully cool even at midday. The mountain sides werethickly wooded, the rocky soil was covered with fine greengrass, and beautiful ferns, from the delicate maiden-hair tothe large, broad-leaved species, were growing luxuriantly.It was indeed almost impossible to realize that I was inthe wilds of southern Mexico. I might have been in thewoods of New England in early summer time or amid theScottish Highlands, except that there were very few pinetrees. Birds, too, seemed to be scarce in these woods, andsave for an occasional whistle or chirp, silence reigned.There is, in fact, very little animal life in this part of thecountry. There are a few small gray deer in the moun-tains, but they are very rarely seen. I also noticed thatthere were very few insects at this season, no mosquitoesor other troublesome pests usually found in warm countries. A VALLEY IX THE SIERRAS.One of the charming scenes in Southern Mexico.
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WITHIN THE RUINS OF MITLA.The wonderful Hall of Mosaics. (See page 306.) LUXURIOUS LIFE AT A GOLD-MINE 283 The State of Oaxaca is famous for its scenery and isexceedingly mountainous. Its southern boundary reachesalmost to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the extreme southof Mexico. It is traversed through its entire length by amajestic chain of mountains (Las Sierras Madre del Sur),rising at some points to eleven thousand feet above the levelof the sea. The State is surprisingly rich in its forestsand valuable woods, of which there are a wonderful vari-ety, including mahogany, ebony, rosewood, maple, walnut,acacia, cedar, pine, oak, holly, olive, poplar, apricot,lignum vitse, veneering woods of all kinds and a numberof costly dyewoods. Oaxaca abundantly produces Indiancorn, w^heat, beans, cotton, barley, coffee, cacao, sugar-cane,rice, vanilla, pepper, tobacco, hemp and india-rubber,oranges, lemons, bananas, mangoes; in fact, every knownfruit and vegetable will yield abundant and profit

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