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important part of the country, is the one with which we as a nation have had and will have most to do, and which will occupy our attention chiefly on this occasion. It now contains a vast population, probably four times as great as the United States; but its capabilities are so unbounded that it may sustain a very much larger number of inhabitants. Its soil is not surpassed, if equalled, in the world. Its immense vegetation grows unchecked throughout the year. The tropical fruits which are brought to us as luxuries, and many, which cannot be transported, there abound in the utmost profusion. How would we be charmed to stand among its groves of orange, olive, banana and palm. How delighted to behold, hanging around us in the most lavish abundance, the lemon, pine-apple, mango, plantain, lime, and pomegranate. How impressed to walk among her gigantic forest-trees, interlaced with vines, and sheltering the mightiest animals that tread the earth. There are found dye-woods, ship-timber, and timber for cabinet and common building purposes in great variety, and of great excellence. Many of our condiments and articles belonging to our Materia Medica are now brought from there, and may be procured in any quantity Almost all the productions comprised in the departments of horticulture, farming, and planting, grow there with astonishing exuberance. The face of the country is diversified, much of it being hilly and mountainous. It is well watered, abounds in valuable minerals, including gold and iron, has no epidemic diseases, and not a great many of any