234 SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



merous family of beautiful little frogs, which 

 had attached themselves to the foliage, and 

 on my approach had leaped into the water. 



The bishop's palace is recommended as 

 deserving the attention of strangers. It is 

 about three miles up the country, the situ- 

 ation very fine, and the road, through plan- 

 tations of the cabbage-tree, cocoa, date, and 

 a species of bread-fruit, is delightful to an 

 European ; but the house and garden, with 

 the exception of some noble clumps of bam- 

 boos, are not worth seeing. The markets 

 produce many of the Mexican fruits, and -a 

 great variety of curious birds, but, unfortu- 

 nately, all of them so much mutilated as not 

 to be fit for preserving. The fishes are nu- 

 merous; the dolphin is commonly sold for 

 the table, and considered a delicacy; land 

 crabs are abundant in the market, and are 

 good eating, and so is that elegant shell-fish 

 the great angeVs wing pliolas, which is sold 



