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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



Such is the exterior of the Casa del Gobernador. 

 To go into any description of details would extend 

 these pages to an indefinite length. Its distinguish- 

 ing features are, that it was long, low, and narrow ; 

 below the cornice plain, and above ornamented with 

 sculpture all around. Mr. Catherwood made mi- 

 nute architectural drawings of the whole, and has in 

 his possession the materials for erecting a building 

 exactly like it ; and I would remark that, as on our 

 former expedition, he made all his drawings with 

 the camera lucida, for the purpose of obtaining the 



