. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. STAIRWAY IN THE INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE. OAXACA 345 between which appear the busts of saints diminishing in size as the heightincreases until at the apex only the faces are STATUE OF BENITO JUAREZ, ON THE MOUNTAIN OVERLOOKING HIS NATIVE CITY. Several times when churches were being looted it was proposed by partiesin possession to scrape the wonderful decorations from this ceiling to recoverthe gold used therein, but somehow the work was never attempted, the pillagerscontenting themselves with the pictures,
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. STAIRWAY IN THE INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE. OAXACA 345 between which appear the busts of saints diminishing in size as the heightincreases until at the apex only the faces are STATUE OF BENITO JUAREZ, ON THE MOUNTAIN OVERLOOKING HIS NATIVE CITY. Several times when churches were being looted it was proposed by partiesin possession to scrape the wonderful decorations from this ceiling to recoverthe gold used therein, but somehow the work was never attempted, the pillagerscontenting themselves with the pictures, statuary, altar ornaments, which couldbe more readily seized. The monastery itself was reduced to bare walls and isnow used as a barracks. Other buildings worthy of inspection are the State House, Federal Building,and the Public Library containing fourteen thousand volumes, in which arefound many old manuscripts relating to the period of the Conquest. These buildings and the residences of Oaxaca impress one as being more dis-tinctively of Moorish design than those in other cities. 11 would seem as if the notestruck by the early builders had been held by all their successors. Having this im-pression, the modernity of the trolley cars and electric lights
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