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A GUIDE TO MEXICO. 



From Tuxpan to Vera Cruz the distance by sea is 120 miles. The steamers 

 leave the Tuxpan roadstead late in the evening, and arrive at the port of Vera 

 Cruz about seven the next morning. Here, also, the ship receives and discharges 

 her cargo by means of lighters, although she lies but about a half-mile from the 

 mole, within a few yards of the celebrated fortress of San Juan de Ulua. At 

 this city, the terminus of the line, the steamer connects with the New-York line, 

 owned by the same company, and which touches at the ports of Frontera, Cam- 

 peche, Progreso, and Havana. 



The Morgan Line makes the round trip between Morgan City and Vera Cruz 

 twice a month, leaving Morgan City on the ist, arriving at Vera Cruz on the 5th ; 

 returning, leaves Vera Cruz on the 8th, and reaches Morgan City on the evening 

 of the 1 2th, which port it leaves again for Vera Cruz on the i6th, etc., touching 

 at Galveston both ways. 



A GATEWAY, VERA CRUZ. 



