Chapter 18

Santa Rosalia.--Mineral Springs.--Chihuahua.--A Peculiar City.-- Cathedral.--Expensive Bells.--Aqueduct.--Alameda.--Hidalgo's Prison and his Fate.--Eulalia.--A Large State.--A Grand Avenue of Trees.--Local Artists.--Grotesque Signs.--Influence of Proximity to the United States.--Native Villages.--Dangerous Sand-Spouts.--Reflections on Approaching the Frontier.-- Pleasant Pictures photographed upon the Memory.--Juarez, the Border Town of Mexico.--City of El Paso, Texas.--Railroad Interests.--Crossing the Rio Grande.--Greeted by the Stars and Stripes 343

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