Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

TRAVELS IN AMIERICA.
ableness and necessity, than before the war. I am told great numbers of young Mexicans of good family go to the United States
now to be educated, and they will come back, of course, with vastly enlarged views, and developed powers of intellect.
CIHAPTER XXVII.
Mexico when First conquered-Cortez and Montezuma-The musical Gen tleman-Mexican Plants and Flowers-The Cathedral in the City of
Mexico-Arrival of the Diligence at the Hotel-The Passengers-M. de
Zurutuza-Appointments of the Hotel —Mexican Pronunciamientos-The
Mexican Lady and her Flowers-The Form of Government best suited
for Mexico-The Streets of Mexico-The Passengers and Vehicles-The
Shops-Rebosos and Sarapes-Picturesque Costume of the Mexicans.
IT was not possible to roll along the broad causeway leading to
Mexico-that causeway made, if I am correctly informed, by the
ancient Indians, and not think of the days of old, when along that
magnificent road marched the hosts of Cortez in their pride and
power-the gallant Spanish chivalry-while before their wonderiniig
eyes rose the city of ten thousand enchantments, the unspeakably
beautiful Tenochtitlan, like the capital of the Eastern Kingi of the
Genii, spreading over and covering its beautiful islands, with its
palaced streets, that swarmed with gay canoes-its temples, its
groves, its floating gardens, its crystal seas, covered with barques
(those majestic lakes which are now so diminished and reduced),
and all its unimaginable beauties of art and nature-all that unrivaled valley-world which, shut out from the rest of earth, scarcely
seems to belong to that earth-fenced and walled round by its
glorious giant mountains, leaning their snowy-helmed foreheads
against the stars, and reflecting themselves in those silver waters,
as if they repented of leaving such a scene of enchantment, and
thus returned and haunted it ever.
WVhat a vision must this have been to the eyes of the Spanish
conqueror, and those of his adventurous followers, when, too, they
saw the splendid procession advancing from the gates of the glorious
city to meet them-the mighty monarch of the Aztecs, the imperial Montezuma, surrounded by his court, his richly appareled
chieftains; in short, as says one of the old Spanish writers, about
two hundred nobles of the royal blood, "vestidos di libr6a con
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