"Above the town, in a foothill of the Sierra Madre about three leagues away, is situated the 'Enchanted City,' never yet fouled by the foot of man, but yet existent, and believed in by all those who follow that best part of history, the traditions which have come down to us from the times when men were wise, and when imagination governed judgment, as it should today, being the noblest faculty of the human mind." p.15