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270,000. The milder regions about Jalapa and Orizaba are more 

 thickly peopled, than the comparatively sterile and sickly shores of 

 the gulf. The population is composed of mixed races : — Creoles, 

 Indians, Havanese, Foreigners, and a few Negroes. 



The State of Vera Cruz is divided into four Departments and 

 twelve districts, with 103 municipalities and 1,370 village juris- 

 dictions. 



1st. The Department of Jalapa, with two districts or cantons, 

 viz: — 1st, Jalapa, including the capital of that name, — thirty-one 

 villages, fourteen haciendas and sixteen ranchos ; — and 2d, Jalan- 

 zingo, with the towns of Perote and Jalanzingo, five villages, seven 

 haciendas and thirty-three ranchos, 



2d. The Department of Orizaba, with three districts or cantons : 

 1st, Orizaba, including the city of that name, — Sougolican, twen- 

 ty-seven villages, six haciendas and fifty ranchos. 2d, Cordova, 

 including the city of that name, and the towns of Coscomatepec and 

 San Antonio Huatusco, — twenty villages, twenty-eight haciendas 

 237 ranchos, — and 3d, Cosamaloapan, with eight villages, five ha- 

 ciendas and forty-one ranchos. 



3d. The Department of Vera Cruz with four districts or cantons : 

 1st, Vera Cruz, including the capital of that name, with Alvarado 

 and Medellin, 21 haciendas, 149 estancias, and 600 ranchos. 

 2d, Misantla, with four villages, two haciendas, and thirty-four 

 ranchos. 3d, Papantla, with thirteen villages, seven ranchos and 

 the hacienda de Norias. 4th, Tampico, with Tampico and Pa- 

 nuco, — seven villages, thirty-nine haciendas and forty-one ranchos. 



4th. The Department of Acayucam, with three districts or can- 

 tons 1st, Acayucam, with the adjacent Acayucam and San Juan 

 Oluta, nineteen villages, twelve haciendas, twenty-seven hatos and 

 eleven ranchos, 2d, Huimanguillo, with twenty-one villages, one 

 hacienda and nineteen ranchos. 3d, San Andres Tuxtla, with the 

 adjacent San Andres and Santiago Tuxtla, — two villages, one ha- 

 cienda, thirty-four hatos, and eight ranchos. 



It is impossible in a description of this rich and varied State to 

 sum up with accuracy what it produces either naturally or by in- 

 troduction from abroad, for its genial climate, changed by the ele- 

 vation of the interior portions of the State, renders it capable of 

 yielding the fruits, the flowers, the grains, the woods, the vegeta- 

 bles and the animals of the temperate as well as of the torrid zone. 

 Tobacco, coffee, sugar, cotton, corn, barley, wheat, jalap, sarsapa- 

 rilla, vainilla, mameis, papayas, pine-apples, oranges, citrons, 

 lemons, pomegranates, zapotes, bananas, chirimogas, aguacates, 

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