TOLTEC GORGE - THE GREAT DIVIDE

An hour's ride from either side of the Mount brings the traveler to the brow of a precipitous hill, from whence he looks down into the peaceful and picturesque valley of the Los Pinos. As the advance is made around the mountain spurs and deep ravines, glimpses are caught of profound depths and towering heights, and then the train, after making a great detour of four miles around a side canon, plunges into the blackness of the tunnel. Heights! Depths! Mere words these; but here they are stupendous things. Six churches, each with spire as towering as Trinity's placed one above the other, would scarcely bring the topmost steeple on a level with the observer's eye.

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