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  • Etiquetas: Urbanismo

So that Friday 25th Acapulco was converted from a rustick village into a populous city; and the huts before inhabited by dark Mulattoes were all fill'd with gay Spaniards.

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Acapulco, a little Town newly built, with St. James’s Castle, most strongly fortify’d on a Hill; having five Bastions and a very capacious Harbour, from whence Ships set sail every Year to the Philippine Islands and China.

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The second Town I shall decribe in Mexico Proper is Acapulco, a celebrated Port on the South Sea.

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The streets of Christendom must not compare with those [streets] in breadth and cleanness, but especially in the riches of shops which do adorn them.

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so that Length and Breadth of the Place may be discerned at the Corner of any Street. They are all wide, and well pav’d, but generally dirty.

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On the next day we pursued our route to the city of Chiapa, and a city it might truly be called, from the regularity of its streets and houses. It contained not less than four thousand families, not reckoning the population of the many dependent…

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Sunday 24th, having rode two leagues, we heard mass at the village of Chilpansingo, a convenient place, in the midst of the valleys, so plentiful of Maiz or Indian wheat, that they lay up their harvest in little country houses, or barns, made of wood…

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they carried him a Floating-Garden, with Greens, and Timber on it for Building; and Gemelli adds, that such a Garden is still cultivated there, by throwing Earth upon Rushes and long Grass interwoven together on the Water.

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So that Friday 25th Acapulco was converted from a rustick village into a populous city; and the huts before inhabited by dark Mulattoes were all fill'd with gay Spaniards

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The Town stands, great part of it, upon Bog or Morass, which occasions the Foundations of some of them to sink; and, what is worse, there are so many Rivers that fall from the Mountains into the Lake, that the Town is often in Danger of being…

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What is most remarkable besides in Mexico, is the vast spacious Market-Place, or Square in the middle of the Town; on one Side whereof runs a Cloyster, under which are some of the richest Shops in the World; and on the other, stands the magnificent…

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Mexico a famous City, which has impos’d its Name not only on this Province and Audience, but also on the Kingdom of Mexico, or New Spain, and even on the whole Continent of Northern America. It was heretofore the Royal Seat of the Kings of Mexico, of…

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A principal street in the city of Mexico, that leads to the imperial palace, which is seen in the bottom. A triumphal arch and divers military trophies.

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The last Town I shall mention in the Province of Mexico is Pachuca, which having several rich Silver Mines near it, the Silver is refined here, and cast into Pigs or Bars, fit for Transportation.

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La Puebla de-los-angelos is the most considerable city of Mexico, except the capital. It is almost as large as Orleans, and its streets are strait and adorn’d with pretty beautiful houses. It is divided into four parishes in which there are nine…

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and the Street called Tacuba, where those Tradesmen reside that deal in Brass, Steel, and Iron Ware, is very long and spacious.

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And gone up and down vast high mountains, in all three leagues journey, I came to the inn of Attaxco, consisting of five cottages, thatch'd and palisado'd about.

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Montezuma made his entry into the city, with his guest. It was not then called Mexico, but Tenuchtitlan . It was spacious and well peopled, containing, according to the Spanish Historians, about twenty thousand ordinary houses, and a vast number of…

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We went hence two leagues further, to lie at Zumpango, another village in the valleys, which the Spaniards call Canada, because there is a road eight leagues in length, without shelter of any trees.

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