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CITIES AND ROUTES OF TRAVEL.
sat under this tree and cried over his misfortunes, after the disastrous retreat of the Spaniards during the night of the evacuation. The tree is known to the Indians as the ahuehuete, and is called a sabino in Spanish. It is a species of cedar, and is ten feet in diameter at the base and
The Noche-triste Tree.
about forty feet high. An iron railing surrounds it. The Atzcapotzalco horse-cars run through the Riviera de San Cosme, passing Alvarado's Leap, the houses of the foreign legations, the Tivoli Gardens, the School of Agriculture, the Tlaxpana aqueduct, and the noche-triste tree, before
