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excellent appetite, we remounted our horses 

 and rode thither. The road or path had 

 been improved at much expense by Mr. 

 Wilcox, but still it was such as few persons 

 accustomed to our English turnpike roads 

 would choose to venture upon on horseback : 

 but surely nothing can excel it in point of 

 romantic scenery, or in the luxuriance and 

 variety of the vegetation, which in some 

 places renders it difficult of passage. The 

 mine is situated in a valley, through which a 

 small stream winds, till it falls into the river 

 at the bottom of the town. 



We found the works in considerable for- 

 wardness, and part of the machinery for the 

 steam-engine had already arrived; this had 

 been brought from Vera Cruz to Tolluca on 

 waggons, and from thence through the woods 

 by means of rude wooden carriages built on 

 the spot, drawn by Indians and oxen. 



A shed of great magnitude, in the form of 

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