THE KINGDOM OF GUATEMALA. 13 
declared, and internal rebellion, all Salvadorenos between 
tbe ages of eighteen and fifty are liable to military 
duty. 
In 1879 the number of primary schools was 624 (465 
boys’, and the rest girls’); and these were attended 
by 20,400 boys and 4,038 girls, at a probable cost of 
$150,000. There is a central university, with faculties 
of Law, Medicine, Theology, and Civil Engineering, and 
it has branches at Santa Ana and San Miguel. 
There are six hundred and ninety-three miles of tele¬ 
graph, with forty offices; and the service is reasonably 
well performed by the Government officials. A railroad 
between Santa Tecla and the capital, and five hun¬ 
dred and nine leagues of cart-roads, afford communi¬ 
cation ; and there are lines of stages subsidized by the 
Government. 
In 1879 the imports were $2,549,160.19, and the 
exports $4,122,888.05 ; ^he income $2,914,236.29, and 
the expenditures $2,785,068. The funded debt was 
$1,945,201, the floating debt $392,777.11, and there 
is no foreign debt. 
Salvador is essentially an agricultural state, and coffee, 
indigo, balsam, tobacco, rice, cacao, sugar, rubber, and 
other less important products are produced abundantly 
from her fertile fields. 
Honduras. — The third republic of Central America 
covers an area of about forty thousand square miles. 
Its boundaries are seen on the map, and its surface is 
diversified with high mountain-ranges, broad and fertile 
valleys, vast forests, and plentiful streams. Its climate 
is extremely hot on the coast; but in the mountain 
region, as at Intibuca, the temperature is low. Never 
