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der, daisy, wall-flower, pink-catchfly, bachelor’s-buttons, 
flax, and Canterbury-bells. 
A city of nearly twenty-five thousand inhabitants — 
the majority Indios — has grown up gradually on the ruins 
of the ancient Xelahu, until it is only second in impor¬ 
tance to Guatemala City. Its port is Chainperico, from 
Manuel Lisandro Barillas. 
which a railroad extends some distance into the interior 
(to Retalhuleu, 1884), and will one day enter the city. 
Abundant water-supply, schools of various grades, —- in¬ 
cluding a night-school for artisans, — a good hospital, 
female orphan asylum, convenient public buildings and 
a suitable penitentiary, a bank, public lavatories, and 
the hot springs of Almolonga, are but some of the 
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