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SIX MONTHS TN MEXICO. 



who superintended the whole. We had there- 

 fore nine mules and four persons employed 

 for the transport of what, in England , would 

 easily have been accomplished with a chaise 

 and one pair of horses. 



We reached Puente del Rey the first 

 evening, having perfoiymed great part of the 

 journey on the noble causeway made about 

 twenty years since, most of which is still in 

 good repair ; and the whole way to the Pu- 

 ente might be made a fine road, by connect- 

 ing the unfinished parts on the M'Adamizing 

 principle, as plenty of good materials are to be 

 found near it. The road now presented a very 

 different appearance from what it did when we 

 passed up from the coast, owing to the rains, 

 which had covered places, that were before 

 parched up and burnt, with the finest verdure, 

 and with a profusion of elegant plants, among 

 which a great variety of mimosas seemed to 

 predominate. I procured seeds of some of 



