THE LAND: ITS PRODUCTS AND CITIES.
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lack of water-communication will be more than made up by several great railroad systems converging toward
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ON THE CANAL, NEAR MEXICO CITY.
the ancient capital and linking the sleepy old cities along their routes with the wide-awake world outside.