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* tions of the Isthmus. The village is located on the western bank 
of the river, twenty miles from its mouth, and contains some 70 
habitations, with a mixed population of 460, who are variously 
occupied as boatmen, agriculturists, and carpenters. The houses 
are generally built to face a single street, crossing at right angles 
a sloping gravelly ridge, which runs parallel with the Coatzaco- 
alcos. Back of the village, the land continues moderately high 
and undulating for some distance, but the river margins in 
the immediate proximity are low and subject to periodic inun- 
dation. Timber of all kinds grows in great abundance, and the 
profusion of fruit, as guavas, oranges, mangoes, melons, lemons, 
&c, is not the least interesting feature of the place. The peo- 
ple generally are more intelligent than in other towns of the 
Isthmus, a fact which is doubtless due to their intercourse with 
foreigners. Little attention is however paid to agriculture, and 
the productive industry of Mina-titlan is correspondingly limited. 
Cattle and other live stock constitute the principal wealth of the 
people, who, notwithstanding their mental superiority over those 
of other parts, are indolent and apathetic. The landed property 
of those who reside within the precincts of the town is limited, 
with few exceptions, to certain shares in the immense tract called 
the Potrero de la Isla, lying on the east bank of the Coatzacoal- 
cos. The climate is generally salubrious and healthy ; and the 
advantageous position of the village, its limited distance from 
the sea, and the capacity of the river at that point for ship navi- 
gation, cannot fail, under any circumstances, to make it hereaf- 
ter a place of considerable importance. 
Cosuliacaqtje, irregularly built on an elevated broken ridge, 
shaded by a grove of trees, seven and a half miles west from 
Mina-titlan, is an Indian village, settled in 1717. It contains 
several addbie houses and a venerable-looking church, on a beam 
in the centre of which is inscribed the names of certain priests, 
by whom it was built, and the date " 1796." In tfye vicinity of 
this place is a broad strip of level country, well adapted for cul- 
tivation or pasturage, and irrigated by three rivulets abounding 
in excellent fish. The productions of Cosuliacaque consist of 
Indian corn, sugar, and bananas. The degree of salubrity here 
may be inferred from the fact, that there are twenty old men in the 
