Mexico. 



MEXICO, OR NEW SPAIN, 



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creatures being forced to endure all extremities of weacher, without either 

 houfe or hut to protect them ; they likewife keep their catde, and do every 

 fervile office, though not without relu(5tance. 



CAMPEACHE', 



CALLED by the Spaniards, San Francifco de Campeachcy (lands open to 

 the fea : it makes a fine fhew, being all built with ftone. The houfes 

 are not high, but the walls very ftrong; the roofs flattifli after the Spanijh man- 

 ner. When taken by the Spaniards^ it was a large town of 3000 houfes, 

 and had confiderable monuments both of art and induftry. There is a good 

 dock, and a flrong citadel or fort, where a governor refides with a garrifon 

 which commands both the town and harbour. 



The Englijh, commanded by Sir Chrijiopher Mims in 1659, ftormed and 

 took it only with fmall arms, and it was a fecond time taken by the EngliJJj 

 and French buccaneers by furprize in 1678. The port is large but fhallow. It 

 was a ftated market for logwood, of which great quantities grew here, before 

 the Englijh landed in the neighbourhood, and cut it at the ifthmus, which 

 they entered at Triejie ifland, near the bottom of the bay, 40 leagues S. W. 

 from Campeache. The chief manufadlure of the country, adjacent to this 

 town, is cotton cloth, which is the clothing of the nadves, and even of fome 

 of the Spaniards of the poorer fort. 



TABASCO. 



THE extent of this province along the gulf of Mexico is a very narrow 

 flip by the fea fhore. Neither is the foil or climate much to be 

 boafted of, the one being far from wholfome, and the other not over-fruit- 

 ful. Our logwood-cutters ufed to frequent this place much, and procured 



