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They Are a Distinctive Feature of the fictiyal View. There is no country better worth vis iting than Mexico. It is very striking to crossing the border from the United States to note how completely every thing changes. Here there hardly seems anything man has constructed which harmonizes with its surround ings; there everything seems to be en tirely a part of the country. It is more foreign than Europe is now and constantly reminds one of the east. Riding in some of the little traveled districts, I could hardly believe that I was not in India. The dust in the road, the thorn scrub on both sides, with that pungent smell of the blos soms, all reminded me of the country about Ahmedabad. The plateau in winter, the dry season, is very much like the desert—long stretches of coun try, with purple mountains in the dis tance, without a tree in sight except where there is a town or where irri gation has kept a little green and a few trees have been planted. Often the horizon is so distant that the mountains melt into the sky, and per haps one catches a glimpse of the snow on one of the volcanoes. The colors that of its own Mexican opal—greens, blues and reds. Everywhere the distinctive features are the church towers and tiled domes rising above the towns.The exteriors of these churches are always pictur esque and interesting, but the interiors are usually disappointing, for they have suffered much during many revo lutions and perhaps even more from senseless renovations. There are a few stil untouched, where one can see them as nearly all were once, entirely covered with richly carved wood heav ily gilded. Gold was used thickly ev erywhere till the carving looked like solid metal, I have seen much gold in churches, but none to equal that In Mexico, —Lockwood de Forest in Cen tury.
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Atlantic Evening News
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Tue, Jun 09, 1908
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