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tories of soap and candles ; the best hams and 

 sausages in New Spain are said to be cured 

 here ; we observed several manufactories of 

 them, and admired again their fine breed of 

 hogs. 



We left Tolluca in our coach, and pro- 

 ceeded about two leagues farther, to a respect- 

 able and substantial hacienda, to the owner 

 of which I was subsequently indebted for 

 much polite attention. Here the road for 

 wheel carriages ceases, and having procured 

 horses and mules for the whole party, which 

 had been augmented by the addition of several 

 persons going to the mine, (among them a 

 Yorkshire blacksmith), we ascended for about 

 a league, and then entered the extensive woods, 

 which crowned the Cordillera, on the west 

 side of the Table-land of Mexico. This was 

 by much the most beautiful scene I had yet 

 witnessed in America ; — abounding with trees 

 of the noblest forms and loftiest height, most 



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