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Title: Young folks' history of Mexico
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A. (Frederick Albion), 1849-1913
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ge containing two of thehighest peaks in North America, which rose directly beforethem. Popocatapetl was the name of the highest peak,which, rising to a height of nearly 18,000 feet, had its sum-mit always covered with snow. Popocatapetl is an Indianname, and signifies the hill that smokes, because it is avolcano, and within the memory of the Indians had belchedout smoke and even ashes. A few miles away from thisvolcano rose another, a long, broken ridge covered withsnow, and called Iztaccihuatl— or the woman in white ; named by the Spaniards, La Alujer Blanca — which signi-fies the same thing. This name had been given to it onaccount of its shape, which has a fancied resemblance to agreat, dead giantess, robed in snowy white. Between thesegiant mountains ran the trail to Mexico, and from theirwestern slopes the Spaniards first caught sight of the Azteccity, which, though near sixty miles away, could be seenglimmering in the sunlight like a fairy creation of pyra-mids and palaces.
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VOLCANOES AS SEEN FROM MEXICO. The Valley of Mexico. 255 If Montezuma had really intended harm to the Spanisharmy this would have been the place, in this gap, wherehe would, beyond all doubt, have attacked them. For thetrail ascends to a height of nearly 14,000 feet, where thewinds are of chilling temperature, and the roads windthrough great black forests of pine and hemlock, where anAztec army would have every advantage for an ambus-cade. They found nothing to prevent their ascent anddescent, except trees felled to obstruct their passage, andanother day found them within the limits of the valley ofAnahuac, with their goal in sight, at intervals, from thehigher hills. At Cholula, previous to leaving it behind him, Cortez haddismissed the Cempoallans and had accepted from theTlascallans a thousand men to carry his baggage and drawthe artillery. He might have had ten thousand had he sochosen, but that great number it would not have beenpolicy to carry into Montezumas kingdom on an erran

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