819 MEXICO. 
Such is a sketch of this branch of industry, to which the Government 
and people seem to have devoted themselves whh a hearty will. I have 
dwelt at considerable length upon it, as evincing an energy and temper 
not usually attributed to Mexicans, and for tne purpose of exhibitmg a 
phase of character at once creditable to their resolution, and manifesimg 
* degree of independence and thriftiness worthy of imitation. 
