100 SIX MONTHS IK MEXICO. 



merous streams that unite near this place, 

 and form a considerable river, which after- 

 wards empties itself into the Pacific ocean. 



The situation of Themascaltepec is the 

 most delightful that can be imagined: its 

 temperature is rather warmer than that of 

 the capital, but I never found it unpleasant, 

 and there is scarcely a vegetable production 

 that might not be cultivated there in per- 

 fection. 



I . know of no place more desirable for a 

 human residence : it wants but the re-establish- 

 ment of the mines or manufactories, to make 

 it again what it has been, — the source and mart 

 of abundance and riches. The various re- 

 mains of haciendas, and of smelting and amal- 

 gamation houses, on the banks of its rapid 

 streams, attest its former consequence ; and if 

 ever commercial enterprise, and the employ- 

 ment of British capital should be established in 

 Mexico, no place that I have seen can be better 



