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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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lms, withfeathery grace above and slender column upward rearing,stir not against their ethereal setting as we watch, and thepassing water in the old aqueduct scarce breaks the tropicsilence, or if, perchance, it whisper, murmurs of centuriespast, a low refrain. But we shall journey away from the haunts of man again,and penetrate the deep dark barrancas and little-knownmountain-fastnesses of the western slope of the Stateof Guerrero. Here are great uninhabited and unexploredstretches of country, rugged and wild, replete withmatters of interest, whether for hunter, sportsman, orarchaeologist. Indeed, it would be difficult to find aregion offering so varied a nature of resource andinterest in any part of the world, except possibly inthe still less accessible wilds of the Amazonian slopesof the Peruvian Andes. The botanist will find onthis Pacific side of Mexico an unstudied flora, and theethnologist and the antiquarian a number of nativeraces, speaking strange separate languages; and the
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TYPICAL VILLAGE OF THE PACIFIC COAST ZONE : STATE OF COLIMA. (Tofacet. i8. A FIRST RECONNAISSANCE 19 ruins of thousands of the habitations of prehistoricman. The cHmate in these rugged regions rangesfrom the heat of the fierce tropical sun to the bittercold of the mountain summits. Abundant basques orforests of oak cover the higher regions, and the wildand broken nature of the country renders it difficultto traverse, and calls for the adventurous spirit of thepioneer and explorer, without which the traveller willbut meet with discomfort and danger. Yet the true traveller finds pleasure in these matters.The impressive grandeur of the mountain landscape,the endless forests, the profound ravines do but serveto divert his mind from the peril and discomfort ofthe trail. Here he may revel in Natures untamedhandiwork of mountain, forest, and flood, as day afterday he journeys onward in the saddle towards thePacific Ocean. Here are the imposing barrancas ofJalisco which he traverses, and mark

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