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nothing could induce them to leave the lovely- 

 spot on which they are placed. The inha 

 bitants of Themascaltepec are courteous and 

 civil to strangers, particularly when known to 

 them ; they are very religious, and constant 

 in their devotions at church ; — most of the 

 ladies attend divine service morning and even- 

 ing every day, and their exterior behaviour is 

 as modest and becoming as I ever witnessed. 

 The three clergymen of the place did me the 

 honour of calling upon me the day after my 

 arrival; they are intelligent men, well dis- 

 posed to the foreigners whom Mr. Wilcox 

 has brought among them, but regretted they 

 were not Christians, a name given in this 

 country only to members of the church of 

 Rome. The introduction of the steam-engine 

 has excited the greatest curiosity among the 

 inhabitants of the neighbourhood, the major 

 part of whom do not believe half the extra- 

 ordinary tales related by the workmen of the 



