Crossword-Solution: TENOCHTITLAN 12 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

TABLE OF CONTENTS I INTO THE COOLER SOUTH II TRAMPING THE BYWAYS III IN A MEXICAN MINE IV ROUND ABOUT LAKE CHAPALA V ON THE TRAIL IN MICHOACÁN VI TENOCHTITLAN OF TO-DAY VII TROPICAL MEXICO VIII HURRYING THROUGH GUATEMALA IX THE UPS AND DOWNS OF HONDURAS X THE CITY OF THE SILVER HILLS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A street of Puebla, Mexico, and the Soledad Church.

Even morning light discovered nothing like the charm of the rest of Mexico, and though I took up new lodgings en famille in aristocratic Chapultepec Avenue, with a panorama of snow-topped Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl, her sleeping sister, and all the range seeming a bare gunshot away, the imagination was more inclined to hark back to the Bowery than to the great Tenochtitlan of the days of Cortez.

That portion of the route from former Tenochtitlan to Oaxaca and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, however, was not then a promising field for tramping by any one with any particular interest in arriving.

The basins are sometimes closed, like the valley of Tenochtitlan, where lie the great Alpine lakes, and sometimes they exhibit traces of ancient ejections, destitute of water.

Here they formed a confederacy of many tribes, ruled over by a sort of king, whose capital was Tenochtitlan, on the site of the present city of Mexico.