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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
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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n its sewers and odors, uponthe surface also. These odors sometimes surpass those of Cologne, but, unlikethose of that fragrant town, are not especially pestilential. Thehigh altitudes preserve it from this peril. Nor is it altogetherblamable for this defect. Drainage is hardly possible. The flatplain surrounded by high mountains prevents any sufficient descentfor sewerage. When the street is opened for such purposes, yousee the moist mud not two feet below the pavement. Efforts arebeing made, or rather being talked about, for opening channels tothe Tulu River, some forty miles to the west, and thereby gettingup a movement of this sort from the centre. But it is not likelysoon to be. Turning away our eyes, if we can not turn up our noses, fromthis offense, which is not very offensive on the chief thoroughfares,let us note the map and the traits of the town. The first peculiarity you will observe is the romantic outlook al-most every street corner affords. You look straight through the
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BEAUTY OF LOCATION. II3 city, and bound your vision by the purple mountains, whicheverdirection you gaze. Take any corner where the streets pass clearthrough the town, you see, north, south, east, and west, or as nearthat as the lines run, the all-embracing mountains. They arefrom three to thirty miles distant, some even sixty miles, and yetthey look as if only just down to the farther end of this telescopictube of a street. They rise from two to ten thousand feet, and soare never diminutive, often very magnificent. No city I have ever seen has any equal cincture. Athens ap-proaches it. Her chief streets look out on Pentelicus and Hymet-tus ; but she is not level herself, and so can not get up these vis-tas ; nor is she large, and does not, therefore, match her mount-ains. They overpower her, not she them. Mexico is equal to hergrander mountains. Popocatepetl is not ashamed to call her sis-ter, nor is she unworthy of such a companionship. Athens historic-ally overtops all its peaks. M

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