GOG ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



Spaniards first carried from Ame- 

 rica, and introduced into Spain. 

 There abounds also wheat, barley, 

 oats, and every kind of grain that 

 Europe produces, as well as pease, 

 beans, vetches, and other kinds of 

 pulse ; lettuces, cabbages, turnips, 

 carrots, artichokes, potatoes, len- 

 tils, mint, marjoram, balm, sage, 

 French beans, radishes, garlick, 

 asparagus, onions, and, in short, 

 every sort of kitchen herbs ; car- 

 nations, roses, tulips, violets, ra- 

 nunculuses, jonquils, jessamines, 

 and other flowers, and odoriferous 

 plants brought from Europe, all 

 prosper there in the highest per- 

 fection. 



The city of Mexico is the em- 

 porium, or grand magazine, in 

 which are collected all the gifts of 

 nature, wherein are found apples, 

 pears, plums, apricots, peaches, 

 quinces, cherries of all kinds, cur- 

 rants, grapes, water-melons, figs, 

 almonds, olives, walnuts, ches- 

 nuts, filberts, hazel-nuts, dates, 

 pomegranates, oranges, lemons, 

 limes, pine-apples, guanas, citrons, 

 melons, cucumbers, plantains, cas- 

 sava roots, yams, and many other 

 fruits which cold or hot countries 

 equally produce. 



At all seasons of the year their 

 market is plentifully provided ; 

 even in the winter, vessels daily 

 enter their market by one of the 

 innumerable canals of the city, 

 laden with such an abundant va- 

 riety of fruits, flowers, and herbs, 

 that it seems as if all the seasons 

 of the year offered their produc- 

 tions simultaneously. 



The gulf and the sea-coasts of 

 Mexico abound with a great va- 

 riety of fish, viz. whales, dol- 

 phins, porpoises manatis, sword- 

 fish, saw-fish, bonitos, thornbacks, 



flying-fish, sharks, mullets, shad, 

 cod, polypus, spunges, soles, se- 

 veral species of tortoises, stur- 

 geons, pike, congers, turbot, carp, 

 nautili, lampreys, sardinias, had- 

 dock, eels, crabs,lobsters,shrimps, 

 prawns, and shell-fish. In the 

 lakes and rivers there are upwards 

 of one hundred species offish, as 

 various kinds of white fish, carp, 

 trout, barbels, mullet, eels, pike, 

 salmon, bobos, &c. Sea-shells are 

 found on these coasts in prodigious 

 numbers, and some of them of 

 extraordmary beauty. 



The ancient quadrupeds com- 

 mon to Mexico, are lions, tigers, 

 wild cats, bears, wolves, foxes, 

 common stags, white stags, bucks 

 and does, wild goats, several spe- 

 cies of apes and monkeys, pole- 

 cats, badgers, weazels, martens, 

 squirrels, hares, rabbits, otters, 

 and rats. 



The modern quadrupeds, which 

 have been imported and intro- 

 duced from the Canaries and from 

 Europe, are camels, horses, mules, 

 asses, bulls, cows, sheep, goats, 

 hogs, dogs, and cats, all of which, 

 except camels, have multiplied and 

 increased in a most wonderful 

 manner. There are private per- 

 sons who are masters of fifty thou- 

 sand head of cattle. In the coun- 

 try round the city of Mexico, a 

 pair of large oxen for the plough 

 are sold for 14' to 18 dollars, and 

 bulls are sold by wholesale, at four 

 to six dollars each. The multipli- 

 cation of sheep is most surprising,' 

 there being in New Spain indivi- 

 dual persons who own four and 

 five hundred thousand sheep, each, 

 and with respect to size, there are 

 no rams in Europe larger than the 

 rams in Mexico. The size of the 

 horses of Mexico is that of the 



