...forms the burden of every traveller's lament, who visits that country. Midway across the coatinent, somewhat nearer the Pacific than the Atlantic ocean,...is encompassed by a towering rampart of porphyritic rock, which nature seems to have provided though, ineffectually, to protect it from invasion. The soil,...

...the Atlantic, at an elevation of nearly seven thousand five hundred feet above the level of the sea, is the celebrated valley of Mexico. It is of an oval...form, about sixty-seven leagues in circumference, encompassed by lofty ramparts of porphyritic rock, and the soil white with the incrustation of salts....

...the nakedness of the landscape forms the burden of every traveller's lament, who visits that country. Midway across the continent, somewhat nearer the Pacific...is encompassed by a towering rampart of porphyritic rock, which nature seems to have provided, though ineffectually, to protect it from invasion. The soil,...

...the nakedness of the landscape forms the burden of every traveller's lament, who visits that country. Midway across the continent, somewhat nearer the Pacific...celebrated Valley of Mexico. It is of an oval form, alwut sixty-seven leagues in circumference,3 and is encompassed by a towering rampart of porphyritic...

...modifies, or is removed from it by inversion. Ex. — "In a central region, midway on the continent, though somewhat nearer the Pacific than the Atlantic ocean, at an elevation of njarly seven thousand five hundred feet, lies the remarkable valley of Mexico, encircled by a colossal...

...partially includes the preceding rule. Ex. — "In a central region, midway on the continent, though somewhat nearer the Pacific than the Atlantic ocean,...elevation of nearly seven thousand five hundred feet, lies the remarkable ralley of Mexico, encircled by a colossal rampart of the hardest rocks, and forming...

...modifies, or ia removed from it by inversion. Ex. — "In a central region, midway on the continent, though somewhat nearer the Pacific than the Atlantic ocean,...elevation of nearly seven thousand five hundred feet, lies the remarkable valley of Mexico, encircled by a colossal rampart of the hardest rocks, and forming...

...continent, somewhat nearer the Atlantic than the Pacific ocean, "at an elevation," Prescott says, " of nearly seven thousand five hundred feet, is the...celebrated valley of Mexico. It is of an oval form, about sixty-five leagues in circumference, and is encompassed by a towering ^rampart of porphyritic rock,...

...into a river — expanded into a sea.—Irving. In a central region, midway on the continent, though somewhat nearer the Pacific than the Atlantic Ocean,...elevation of nearly seven thousand five hundred feet, lies the remarkable valley of Mexico, encircled by a colossal rampart of the hardest rocks, and forming...

...the nakedness of the landscape forms the burden of every traveller's lament, who visits that country. Midway across the continent, somewhat nearer the Pacific...form, about sixty-seven leagues in circumference, 8 and is encompassed by a towering rampart of porphyritic rock, which nature seems to have provided,...