SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 203 



Confectionary, which is in much demand 

 in Mexico, is made in great variety, and at 

 very reasonable prices. The number of dif- 

 ferent kinds of dulees, or sweetmeats, exceeds 

 five hundred, and yet they have few like ours. 

 A good artist from this country would soon 

 make a fortune ; but it would never repay 

 the speculation to send the manufactured 

 article where the price of sugar is so low. 



The profession of druggist and apothecary 

 must also be excellent ones ; their prices are 

 exorbitant. — I paid in Mexico a dollar per lb. 

 for the article used in making the composition 

 for preparing my birds, which in Europe is 

 sold for four-pence, and yet the ingredients 

 are the produce of the country. Hops sell 

 here for two shillings and sixpence per ounce, 

 and all drugs in the same proportion. 



An apothecary's store generally occupies 

 six times the space which a similar establish- 

 ment does in England. I was shown one at 



