The objects which chiefly attract the attention of strangers, are 1. The _Cathedral_, which is partly in the Gothic style of architecture, and has two towers, ornamented with pilasters and statues, of very beautiful symmetry. 2. The _Treasury_, which adjoins to the palace of the viceroys: from this building, since the beginning of the 16th century, more than 270 millions sterling, in gold and silver coin, have been issued. 3. The _Convents_. 4. The _Hospital_, or rather the two united hospitals, of which one maintains six hundred, and the other eight hundred children and old people. 5. The _Acordada_, a fine edifice, of which the prisons are spacious and well aired. 6. The _School of Mines_. 7. The _Botanical Garden_, in one of the courts of the viceroy's palace. 8. The edifices of the _University_ and the _Public Library_, which, however, are very unworthy of so great and ancient an establishment. 9. The _Academy of Fine Arts_. Mexico is the see of an archbishop, and contains twenty-three convents for monks, and fifteen for nuns. Its whole population is estimated at one hundred and forty thousand persons. On the north-side of the city, near the suburbs, is a _public walk_, which forms a large square, having a basin in the middle, and where eight walks terminate. The _markets_ of Mexico are well supplied with eatables; particularly with roots and fruit. It is an interesting spectacle, which may be enjoyed every morning at sunrise, to see these provisions, and a great quantity of flowers, brought by Indians, in boats, along the canals. Most of the roots are cultivated on what are called _chinampas_, or "floating gardens." These are of two sorts: one moveable, and driven about by the winds, and the other fixed and attached to the shore. The first alone merit the denomination of floating-gardens.