Identifier: mexicowonderland1909cars (find matches)
Title: Mexico, the wonderland of the South
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Carson, William English, 1870-
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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IN OLD PUEBLA. One of the quaint streets in this picturesque city.
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THE PYRAMID OF CHOLULA. In the foreground is a peon using the ancient wooden plough. (See page 244.) THE CITY OF THE ANGELS 239 the older buildings in Mexico City; but there is far lessrebuilding, renovating and Americanizing in progress.Most of the houses are painted a cream white, but here andthere they are tinted in some soft shade of color which givesa pleasing variety. Beautiful, too, are the fine old Spanishmansions in which Puebla abounds, many of them havingtheir exteriors decorated with tiles of superb glazing andancient Moorish design. These, in some instances, formmosaics representing figures of saints or birds and animals.The city was once famous for these tiles, which were madeby the Indian potters, but the industry is now dead and theart is lost. In almost every street one passes church afterchurch, in various architectural styles, some of them hugeedifices large enough for cathedrals. Each is of a differenttint; some of the exteriors are beautifully carved; the domesand

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