INDIANS OF MECHOACAN. 



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characteristic traits of the American race, together 

 with a strange mixture of the ancient costume with 

 that which was introduced by the Spaniards. 



Costumes of the Indians of Mechoacan. 



From Valladolid, the ancient kingdom of Mechoa- 

 can, the travellers returned to Mexico by the ele- 

 vated plain of Tolucca, after examining the volcanic 

 mountains in the vicinity. They also visited the 

 celebrated cheiranthostaemon of Cervantes, a tree 

 of which it was at one time supposed there did not 

 exist more than a single specimen. 



At that city they remained several months, for the 

 purpose of arranging their botanical and geological 

 collections, calculating the barometrical and trigo- 



