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Cruz, under the isothermal Hues of 62° to 68° F., are also very extensive, though 

 less appreciated than the coffee grown in the Uruapan district, Michoacan. The 

 tobacco raised on the banks of the Papaloapan, about the slopes of the Tuxtla 

 volcano, and on the spurs of the Tabascan hills, is scarcely inferior in aroma to 

 that of Cuba itself. Since the insurrection of 1868 on that island, several of the 

 banished planters have introduced this industry into Mexico. Yanilla also 

 succeeds perfectly in the hot moist lands about the foot of the eastern Sierra 



Fig 73 — Maguey Plantations, San Feancisquito Disteict, neae Mexico 



Madre, and especially in the environs of Papantla, and at one time Mexico was 

 the largest exporter of this fragrant pod. Now, however, it is far outstripped by 

 the little French colony of Reunion. 



Stock-breeding is one of the chief industries of Mexico. In some of the 

 haciendas in the relatively arid northern provinces, as well as in the moist 

 savannahs in certain parts of Yera Cruz and Tabasco, the whole population consists 



