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CHAPTER I. LAS CUMBRES.
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No country in the world offers to the delighted traveller more charming landscapes than Mexico; among them all, that of Las Cumbres or the peak, is, without fear of contradiction, one of the most striking and most agreeably diversified1.
Las Cumbres form a succession of defiles2 in the mountains, through which winds, with infinite meanderings, the road that runs to Puebla de los ángeles (the town of the Angels), so called, because the angels, according to tradition, built the cathedral there. The road to which we allude4, made by the Spaniards, runs along the side of the mountains with curves of extraordinary boldness, and is bordered on either side by an unbroken line of abrupt5 peaks, bathed in a bluish vapour at each turn of this road, which is, as it were, suspended over precipices6 clad with a luxurious7 vegetation. The scene changes, and grows more and more picturesque8. The mountain peaks no longer rise behind one another, but gradually sink into the plain, while on the other hand, those left behind rise perpendicularly9.
On July 2nd, 18—, about four in the afternoon, at the moment when the sun, already low on the horizon, only shed its beams obliquely10 on the earth, calcined by the heat of the mediodía, and when the rising breeze was beginning to refresh the parching11 atmosphere, two horsemen, well mounted, emerged from a thick clump12 of yuccas, bananas, and purpled flowered bamboos, and turned into a dusty road, which led by a series of successive inclines to a valley in which a
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diversified
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defile
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v.弄污,弄脏;n.(山间)小道 | |
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astonishment
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prosaic
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derived
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sufficiently
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entirely
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thoroughly
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epoch
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partisans
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partisan
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aloof
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permanently
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prospect
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mule
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conceal
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