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" more promising place than the Hills of Guanaxuato. P.S. Dr. 

 " Schiede died a few days previous to my arrival in Mexico of a 

 " typhus fever. 



No. 3.— Guanaxuato, February 17th, 1837. — " I left Mr. 

 " O'Gorman's place at Silao on the 22d of last month, and took up 

 " my old quarters in the house of Messrs. Meade, the corres- 

 " pondents of Messrs. Byrns, Hooton and Co., who supply me 

 " here with the money necessary for my undertaking. The exjienses 

 " this month have greatly surpassed the stipulated allowance it being 

 " quite impossible for me to go out collecting without horses, and a 

 " man to accompany me, without which I am exposed to being 

 " stoned or lassoed, as has happened to several foreigners. The 

 " climate makes travelling on horseback indispensable, and particu- 

 " larly here at this season, where I must go some miles before I am 

 " out of the region of the all-devouring goats and sheep; but yet 

 " under all these circumstances I find sufficient to keep me occu- 

 " pied, and I have already collected seeds, some of which I hope 

 " will prove to be new." 



No. 4.— Guanaxuato, March 11 th, 1837.— " During the last 

 " month I have made various excursions in the mountains of this 

 ' neighbourhood, and have been fortunate enough to find, besides 

 w a few old acquaintances, and notwithstanding the unfavourable 

 ' season, such plants as Ribes, Arbutus, Berberis fascieularis, and 

 ' two new species of Garrya ; one of the latter, a shrub from 15 to 

 ' 20 feet high, I met with a few leagues from here, and the other on 

 ' the Gigante, the highest point of this department, 9000 feet 

 ' aboae the sea, but neither of the flowers are so showy as those 

 4 of G. elliptica, and of one only have I as yet been able to gather 

 * a few seeds." 



No. 5.— Leon, April 18th, 1837.— "On the 13th instant I arrived 

 ' here from Guanaxuato, having been detained for a few days by 

 ' not finding a direct carrier to take my luggage. During the short 

 f time I have been here I have found a few things which I 

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