618 S P A N I S H D O MI N I O N S ;
M ineral
W a t e r s ,
Natural Cu,
riolitics-
There are feveral mineral waters of vat^njs qu^mS|.TuIpltureous^
vitriolic, and aluminous j and fome fprings of great h§atjbu£ none feet»,
particularly diftinguifhed. Belides the volcanqfes.^ere are many ,natu-
ral curiolities, .one. of the moft remarkable .beingthc, Ponte de fDips, or-
bridge of God, refembling the natural bridge in the territory of the
United States, tt.is about one hundred miles, S. E.;ftom M^xijo^ near
the village of Molcaxac, over a deep river .called the Aquetoyaque, and
is conftantly palled as a highway ; bu.t it fee ms uncertain whether the
river have worn die paflage through a rocky mountain, or the fragment
be part of a fallen hill detached by an earthquake. There are many romantic
cataradis, among which muft be mentioned thofe of the rtpr
Guadalaxara, between the city of the fame name and the lake ° f Chapala.
The floating gardens in the lake of Mexicp were artifici#! cimohti'es, the
bottom, bring formed of intertwifted willows.
Spain. He mentions, fome trees of furprifihg fize, one of them fifty feet in (nfcumfjp'rence : and,
perhaps creduloufly, reports that, in digging a mine Sh the ^^m'ee^of RbU^^trireiSutoaii
bodies were found, which yielded aconfiderable quantity. of^#r.r arithijjonesfeemto
be the fome with thofe of the mammoth ; and fie obfcujely defppbes^af^tfo q^smns.
The hell ftone is probably the fonorous marble of China'. The cedar fiver qrepf Huajanato Teems
only dendritic, mingled with fpar.