Carriages had to go round, an easy matter in a city built as this is in squares like a chess-board.
The barricades mount two guns each, and as the streets are quite straight they can sweep them in both directions, to the whole length of their range.

As in Turin, you can look backward and forward along the straight streets from every part of the city, and see mountains at each end.

The suburbs of the city are quite as repulsive as our first glimpse of them led us to expect; and, as far as one could judge by the appearance of the half-caste inhabitants, it is not good to go there alone after dark.

Here is the end of the aqueduct of Chapultepec, the Salto del Agua; and--crowded round it--a thoroughly characteristic group of women and water-carriers, filling their great earthen jars with water, which they carry about from house to house.

The women are simply and cheaply dressed, and though not generally pretty, are very graceful in their movements.