CONTENTS. 



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tion— Agriculture — Exports— Preparations for joining Captain Baudin'g 

 Expedition— Journey to Batabano, and Voyage to Trinidad de Cuba 25* 



CHAPTER XXII. 



VOYAGE FROM CUBA TO CARTHAGENA. 



Passage from Trinidad of Cuba to Carthagena— Description of the latter 

 — Village of Turbaco— -Air-volcanoes— Preparations for ascending the 

 RioMagdalena 266 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE JOURNEY FROM CARTHAGENA TO 

 QUITO AND MEXICO. 



Ascent of the Rio Magdalena— Santa Fe de Bogota— Cataract of Tequen- 

 dama — Natural Bridges of Icononzo — Passage of Quindiu— Cargueros 

 —Popayan— Quito— Cotopaxi and Chimborazo — Route from Quito to 

 Lima— Guayaquil— Mexico— Guanaxuato— Volcano of Jorullo— Pyra- 

 mid of Cholula 279 



CHAPTER XXIV. 

 DESCRIPTION OF NEW-SPAIN OR MEXICO. 



General Description of New-Spain or Mexico— Cordilleras — Climates 

 — Mines—Rivers— Lakes — Soil — Volcanoes— Harbours— Population — 

 Provinces— Valley of Mexico, and Description of the Capital— Inunda- 

 tions, and Works undertaken for the Purpose of preventing them. . 297 



CHAPTER XXV. 

 STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF NEW-SPAIN CONTINUED. 



Agriculture of Mexico — Banana, Manioc, and Maize— Cereal Plants — 

 Nutritive Roots and Vegetables— Agave Americana— Colonial Com- 



modities—Cattle, and Animal Productions 325 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



MINES OF NEW-SPAIN. 



Mining Districts — Metalliferous Veins and Beds— Geological Relations 

 of the Ores— Produce of the Mines— Recapitulation 338 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



PASSAGE FROM VERA CRUZ TO CUBA AND PHILADELPHIA, 

 AND VOYAGE TO EUROPE. 



Departure from Mexico— Passage to Havana and Philadelphia— Return 

 to Europe — Results of the Journeys in America 347 



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