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I even observed that, on the road from Perote to Xalapa in the eastern mountains opposite to the island of Cuba, the limit of the pines is 935 toises; while in the western mountains, between Chilpanzingo and Acapulco, near Quasiniquilapa, two degrees further south, it is 580 toises and perhaps on some points 450.
We passed Buena Vista, the fine sugar estate of M. Comonfort, and Aquaguisotla, and slept at Mazatlan, and the next day arrived at the famous city of Chilpanzingo, or City of the Bravos, the centre and focus of the insurrection in the southern provinces.
The great annual Fair of Acapulco. The Village and Harbor of Acapulco. The War of Santa Anna and Alvarez. The Retreat. Traveling alone and unarmed. The Peregrino Pass. Quiricua and Cretinism. Chilpanzingo. An ill-clad Judge. Iguala. Alpayaca. Cuarnavaca. Let us now make a journey in another direction from Acapulco northward to the city of Mexico the route that the East India trade used to follow.
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