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splendens qr A MM e tome with as se south as the Volean de Chiriqui 
in Vera, re had e o sign of any rain, but on this day, 
the 8th oy y a da ires slight showers. An enterprising oe 
Don P. — had. established ae a coffee plantation, said to contain 
40,000 tre 
Jamaili was the next stopping-place, after leaving which, the coun- 
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“ was quite parched up, and almost only green things were some Bust 
Pilocerei, or Old-man Cactuses, and a few Melon-cactuses and Opunti 
passed the villages of Alanguina and dita and crossing the ret Rad 
ma; for the Mexican Empire tried to extend its way even further south than 
Nicaragua. I Thr that : debian and very wholesome o fruit, as large as a 
good-sized Apple, and much eultivated here, was introduced by the same 
c i and by iroa 
ver it also in the higher mountains of northern Mexico. Seeds of it were 
sent to Mr. Bull's Nursery, at Chelsea, where young plants are now to ro- 
used 
Various excursions were made into the surrounding district, where 
the mountains were generally found to be covered with Oak and Pine, 
to which were added, at Depilto, Liquidambar-trees, stemless Fan- 
palms, and some Brambles. On the 19th of April Dr, Seemann 
departed for Matagalpa, taking an easterly direction, and passing 
Palacaguina, where he observed near the church a Juniper-like-looking 
tree, not previously met with by him in any other part of the country. 
Thence the road led to Yale. 
* The scenery about sinn was iio grand. At the back of the rancho there 
scm an vegeta ation was more luxuriant and fresher than we seen it in 
any other part of the country. bcn were e beautiful T Tree-ferns, and € 
Cane-palms, Liquidambars of truly gigantic dimensions, one hundred and fifty 
feet high and ri feet in po Rien ou being the leading trees, and all being 
pus si leaf, a ay green, presented an m — almost equal i in beauty 
to that of a Bee ah forest at home in early summ How well this locality 
vod v suited for m ing coffee! Abou em six pae s from the ' Boca' is the 
f San Rafae which is situated in a plain, and is aoe of forty 
ouses. The people declared there were ded 2000 — Ti in an e place and at 
immediate a re eer which, as there are many may 
Taking a hasty breakfast, and Peai gas oranges, ends for ue siet : 
we pushed on for Jinotega, a town of two hundred houses and a — 
hedges of tall Yucca-trees imparting to it a a characteristic Senn 
