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MEXICO. 
FOUNTAIN AT TUSAPAN. 
It is a statue, nineteen feet high, cut from the solid rock. The dress 
clearly indicates the figure to be that of a squatting woinan, with her head 
inclining on one side. Behind the head, there are remains of a pipe con- 
veying water to the body, through which it passed somewhat in the style of 
the celebrated fountain of Antwerp. From this figure, the stream was car- 
ried by a small canal to the neighboring city, and the whole is supposed, 
by Monsieur Nebel, to have been dedicated as the idol of some god or 
goddess of the waters. 
There is a tradition extant that the people who once inhabited Tusapan, 
finding their soil comparatively steril, and their springs failing, emigrated 
to Papantla, — to which we come next in the course of our antiquarian 
ramble. 
PAPANTLA. 
The village of that name lies sixteen leagues from the sea, and fifty- 
two north from Vera Cruz, at the base of the eastern mountains, in the 
midst of fertile savannahs, constantly watered by streams from the neigh- 
