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MECAMECA of the Sacro Monte, -the prettiest, quaintest, and most picturesque pueblo in Mexico,-is famous for several reasons, the principal one perhaps being that from here one makes the ascent of the great volcano Popocatapetl. Here are the "Sacred Mountain," where lived good Fray Martin of the "Twelve Apostles," and the winding road of the fourteen stations, and here one can see the most grotesque and at the same time pathetic "Passion Plays" that the world can present.

One goes to Amecameca by way of a certain railway, commonly known as the "angel-maker," because it has made angels of many hapless tourists and travelers, and in the remote event that one arrives there fully alive and in possession of his due allotment of limbs and general faculties, he first proceeds to the quaint old parish church close to the station, which was built by the Dominicans in the year 1500. It is a very good-looking church, capable of holding a large audience, decorated with some good old wood carvings,