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usual we received their 66 Buenos Noche" 

 and retired to rest ; but many of them were 

 in attendance before daybreak to see us on 

 the road; we took an early and a hearty 

 breakfast, and then left these good people, — I 

 hope not for the last time. Nothing can ex- 

 ceed the beauty of the road from thence to 

 the city of Tolluca ; the woods are the most 

 elevated as well as the grandest in Mexico ; 

 and the number and beauty of the flowers 

 that appeared in much novelty at almost 

 every quarter of a mile excited in us the 

 greatest admiration. A botanist might have 

 added several hundreds of new plants, of con- 

 siderable beauty, to our gardens in this morn- 

 ing's ride. The temperature here being fully 

 as cold in summer as in England, they might, 

 I have little doubt, be permanently secured ; 

 how much did I regret that circumstances 

 prevented my effecting this ! I have however 

 brought home some, and still hope to be the 



