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village whose individual ages reach beyond 81 years ; and there 
are the same number of women, whose joint longevity equals 
the sum of 1780. According to Sefior Iglesias, the wife of Don 
Juan Martin died in 1830, at the extraordinary age of 136 years. 
The inhabitants, who number 2000, are quiet, inoffensive, and 
industrious. 
About two miles westward of Cosuliacaque is the small 
village of Otiapa, built on an elevated table, gradually slop- 
ing to the east, and overlooking a range of country to the right 
and north, in which direction San Martin and Mount Pelon 
are distinctly visible, presenting a strong contrast to the gen- 
eral uniformity of the surrounding land. The inhabitants, 
numbering about 900, cultivate considerable quantities of ixtle, 
as also maize and sugar-cane. The village is watered by three 
small streams, that empty into the Tierra Nueva and Huasun- 
tan rivers. Otiapa is about eight Mexican leagues from the 
bar of the Coatzacoalcos, and five from La Barrilla, to which 
it descends by an imperceptible declivity. In its vicinity 
there are excellent grazing-lands, which contain many fine cat- 
tle. Something more than a league from the debouche of the 
Coatzacoalcos, a portion of its waters, under the name of Rio de 
las Calzadas, takes a westerly direction until reaching the set- 
tlement of Tierra Nueva, where, forming an extensive marsh, 
it bends towards the coast, and leads to the grazing-lands of 
Rancho Nuevo. Leaving this, the river resumes its western 
direction until its confluence with the Huasuntan, which is nav- 
igable to the Lake of Ostion. 
One and a half miles northerly from Otiapa, is the neat village 
of San Juan Chinameca, beautifully located on an abrupt alluvial 
spur, the sides of which slope to the north, east, and south. It 
contains several well-constructed houses, with balconies support- 
ed by arches of stone. The principal object of interest in the vil- 
lage is the church, built in the centre of a beautiful common, 
surrounded by lofty cocoanut-trees running parallel to the sides of 
the building, which is an oblong stone structure with arched 
door-ways and tiled roof. The interior decorations, though 
rudely made, are nevertheless valuable, especially the candle- 
sticks and altar service, which are formed of silver said to have 
