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ing when Mexico will again raise her head 

 among the greatest cities of the world, a 

 rank to which she is entitled from her own 

 intrinsic merits, and as the capital of one of 

 the finest portions of the globe. The libe- 

 rality and wisdom of her counsellors, under 

 the new order of things, will enable her to 

 break the trammels in which she has been 

 so long confined, so that intelligent strangers 

 may be induced to visit her, and bring with 

 them the arts and manufactures, the im- 

 proved machinery and great chymical know- 

 ledge of Europe ; and in return she will 

 amply repay them by diffusing through the 

 world her immense mineral wealth. 



The Plaza Major, or grand square of 

 Mexico, is one of the finest areas that exists. 

 The east side is occupied by the grand ca- 

 thedral, and segrario, or parish church ; the 

 north by the splendid palace of the Viceroy ; 

 the south by a fine row of houses, in the 



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