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The houses, bowered in dense groves of green, are of the picturesque Tarascan type. The four-sloped roofs, now covered with long, narrow shingles, now with the dull red tiles, suggest the prettiest pictures in Japanese towns. The streets are clean. Through the centre of the town dashes a mountain stream of clearest water, with the hue of sapphire.
Crossing one of the characteristic bridges of the district, with a pretty shingled roof four-sloped like those of the houses over it, and with benches at the sides, where passers can sit and rest, while looking at the dashing, gurgling, foaming, water below, we followed a level road between blackberries, wild roses, and other shrubs, to Uruapan. No town in Mexico is more beautiful.
In all these villages the houses are constructed of heavy logs or timbers, closely and neatly joined; the roofs are shingled with long and narrow shingles, and are abruptly four-sloped. At every house there was something for sale food, drink, or cigarros.
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