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Rh Popocatapetl, five thousand feet higher than Mont Blanc is a perfect cone. Now and then a smoke-wreath

tells of the fires which rage far below its rocky foundations, but there has been no eruption within three hundred years. Such was the dread of this smoking mountain that no Mexican ever scaled it until the Spaniards came. Since these adventurous spirits seized Mexico,