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PANAMA. 



take on board tlie letters and despatches from 

 the Pacific and Panama^ with which she then 

 sails direct for Port Royal^ in Jamaica. It is 

 therefore my intention to set out^ when the 

 courier is ready to depart with the letters. 



I have dined with the Governor Hurtado, 

 who was Columbian minister in London, and 

 negotiated the treaty for the loan ; by specu- 

 lating in which so many people have suffered. 



T have had time to wander over the town, 

 and visit, on foot and horseback, the environs. 

 The ramparts form a pleasant walk, and com- 

 mand a view of the bay, which is shut out 

 partially from the ocean by a series of is- 

 lands, of which Tobogo is the most distant. 

 Whichever way one turns new beauties pre- 

 sent themselves. The picturesque town at 

 the foot of the hills, the little bays lined with 



