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profusion of every variety of vegetable and 

 animal production that can be met with in 

 Europe and America. In the same field may 

 be seen the finest European wheat, plan- 

 tations of sugar-cane, and fences made of the 

 Agava Americana. The culinary vegetables 

 are equally fine and cheap ; the market well 

 supplied with beef, mutton, pork, and poul- 

 try, all which are sold at a reasonable rate. 

 The climate is still finer than at Mexico, 

 for it is seldom warmer and never so cold : 

 there is scarcely a change excepting during the 

 wet season, when rain may be expected every 

 afternoon. At the time of my visit vegetation 

 was surprisingly luxuriant. The variety of 

 flowers and ornamental plants yet unknown 

 to European botanists exceeds all enumera- 

 tion. The roads in the neighbourhood are 

 almost impassable, from the festoons and 

 arches formed by the variety of creepers 

 which choke the way : wild vines, convolvuli, 



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