Identifier: mexicoitsancient01enoc (find matches)
Title: Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development;
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Enock, C. Reginald (Charles Reginald), 1868-1970
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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altar and crucifix,the mother of God who graciously permitted his enrich-ment ! And as if such devotion were to be unstinted, healso places his shrines within the bowels of the mines,and pauses as he struggles through the dark galleries, withheavy pack of silver rock upon his back, to bend his kneea moment before the candle-lighted subterranean altar. And now great desert plains unfold to view. Upontheir confines arise the blue mountain ranges whichintersect them, their canyons and slopes, though faint indistance and blurred by shimmering heat arising fromthe desert floor, yet cast into distinct tracery by the raysof the sun. Towards the azure vault overhead, as webehold the arid landscape, eddying dust-pillars whirlskywards upon the horizon, or perhaps a cloud of dust,far away upon the trail which winds over the flat expanse,denotes some evidence of man—horseman or ox-cartpursuing its leisurely and monotonous way. Upon theedges of the dry stream-beds, or arroyos, which descend <
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A FIRST RECONNAISSANCE 7 from the hills and lose themselves in wide alluvial fansupon the sandy waste, a fringe of scant vegetationappears, nourished by the water which flows down themin time of rain. Beneath our horses hoofs the white alkali crust whichthinly covers the desert floor, crumbles and breaks.Gaunt cacti stretch their skinny branches across the trail,which winds among foothills and ravines, and the hornedtoads and the lizards, the only visible beings of theanimal world here, play in and out of their labyrinthsas we pass. We are upon the Great Plateau. All is vast,reposeful, boundless. The sun rises and sets as it doesupon some calm ocean, describing its glowing arc acrossthe cloudless vault above, from Orient to Occident.Sun-scorched by day, the temperature drops rapidly asnight falls upon these elevated steppes, 7,000 feet or moreabove the level of the sea, and the bitter cold of therarefied air before the dawn takes possession of theatmosphere. The shivering pcones of th

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