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176 Charles V. gave to Cuernavaca the title of Villa, but it was not made a city till October 14th, 1834; in October and November, 1855, here was the seat of government under the Plan of Ayutla, presided over by General Juan Alvarez. During the Empire, Cuernavaca was the summer capital, and the Emperor Maximilian had a pretty little home and garden called "Olindo." and in the Jardin de la Borda he spent the few quiet days of his sojourn in Mexico, but his last visit was cut short by the rumor of a conspiracy for his assassination on the road when he should return to the City of Mexico. The houses of note are the Palace of Cortez, with the tradition that the Conqueror accomplished one of the killings of one of his wives here, but the story doubtless grew out of the drowning in the well at Coyoacan. In one of the rooms, however, the patriot Morelos was confined as a prisoner of war en route to the City of Mexico. The Palacio de Gobierno is a new and very elegant building. The Theatre Porfirio Diaz is a very fine play-house The churches, schools, hospitals and containing also the public library. other charitable institutions are worthy of note.

The whole country roundabout is full of interest, and it will take some days and horses to do the region as it should be done. There are the waterfalls in In the village of San the Tlaltenango, Amanalco and San Antonio ravines. Antonio, reached over a good road, are some potteries and a lake of great beauty; here also is another house of Cortez, near it a rock with some prehistoric carvings. On a neighboring hill is a lizard in stone, nearly nine feet long, and about three miles farther to the south is the hill Quauhtetl "the stone eagle," an eagle in stone that measures three feet from tip to tip. It is eighteen miles to the ruins of Xochicalco, which are intensely interesting and One of the buildings, that may have been and in every way worth the ride. One of the buidlings, which may have been temple, measures seventy-five feet long by sixty-eight feet wide, built of cut stone. Mr. Charles Dudley Warner says the views are most noble and of Some the Ruins there is nothing like them in Assyrian or Egyptian work. of the sugar plantations have old-time buildings, erected two centuries or more ago. notably on the Hacienda de Temisco; another hacienda is that of xtlacomulco, where all the fruits of the tropics may be seen in the fields and gardens. One of the sugar haciendas was erected by Cortez and bequeathed by him to the Hospital of Jesus in the City of Mexico, and remains to this day the property of that institution.

Cuernavaca is the capital of the State of Morelos, and is reached by trains of the Cuernavaca division of the Mexican Central Ry., fifty miles from the City About seven miles away is the primitive Indian town of Juitepec, of Mexico. in which is an ancient church where a great feast is celebrated every j'-ear, a feast that combines the rites of the Christian church with pagan idolatries, and the dance of the natives in front of the church is the same as the dance of the Aztecs on the terraces of the teocalis.

Culiacan. Cool-e-ah-kan' The capital of the State of Sinaloa, a typical Mexican city, is on the river of the same name, about forty miles from the Pacific Ocean and 175 feet above it connected with the port of Altata by rail. The Plaza Mayor has on three sides quaint old portales and on the other the Cathedral, and near by is the Seminary. The government has a fine mint here for the coining of gold and silver mined on the Pacific slope. The town was founded by Nuno Guzman in 1532 after he had exhausted his material for adventure in Guadalajara and the cities farther south.

Durango. Doo-rang'-o It may be called an Iron City, to follow the simile of the Silver City as applied to some of the others of Mexico, though Durango has of silver enough to entitle her to some claim in that direction also; her best boast is in the baser metal. Within the corporate limits of the city of