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PACIFIC POSTS. 
In a review of this survey, it is evident that vessels draw- 
ing eleven feet of water may ascend at all times to the island 
of El Rompido — a distance of twenty-six miles from the de- 
bouche of the river ; and that five feet may be carried with- 
out difficulty to the Playa del Tigre. It is unnecessary to speak 
of the importance of these results, in connection with the valu- 
able timber along the margins, or the surpassing fertility of the 
soil, and the number of sites for colonization throughout the 
whole extent of this rich and luxuriant region, which is destined 
to become one of the most thriving and populous portions of the 
Isthmus. 
PACIFIC PORTS. 
Extract from the Report of P. K Trastour {on the Harhor of 
Ventosa), addressed to the President of the Tehuantepec 
Railroad Company. 
The bay of La Ventosa, situated on the southern coast of 
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, at twelve miles distance, in a S. E. 
direction from the town of that name, is formed by the Pacific 
Ocean; and lies between 16° 11' 36" and 16° 12' 49" north lati- 
tude, and 95° 13' 26", and 95° 15' 52" longitude west from 
Greenwich. 
Its western extremity is formed by the Cerro Morro, an 
isolated rock of oblong shape, rounded at the summit, about 150 
feet high and 2600 in circumference ; and a little more to the 
south by a pointed rock, separated from the former by an 
interval filled in with sand, and forming an angular projection 
into the sea, known under the denomination of the Point of the 
Morro. 
On the west, the Point of the Morro is contiguous, by its base, 
to an uninterrupted series of rocky hills, lining the beach and 
covering an extent of 6000 feet. They cut perpendicularly the 
flank and rear of an agglomeration of moderate heights, some- 
what rugged and precipitous at their summits, and forming 
