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The soil is peculiarly rich, corn would grow 

 in the greatest abundance, and every kind 

 of European produce would flourish. The 

 surrounding scenery is magnificent, and 

 here I pictured to myself smiling villages, 

 and the busy hum of men, where at pre- 

 sent there is nothing but a watery expanse, 

 and not a soul to enjoy the climate and 

 interesting views that encompass this lake. 

 There is more than sufficient extent of land 

 to employ a thousand industrious families; 

 and Senor Paris proposes obtaining the 

 population from Scotland, by forming a 

 joint stock company for that purpose, as 

 soon as he can get all the law papers 

 relating to the grant properly arranged ; 

 and few agricultural speculations, I am led 

 to believe, will be found as lucrative. 



At sunset we arrived at the hacienda of 

 Senor Flores, where we slept, and were 

 most hospitably entertained. 



