| GARRISONS IN THE REPUBLIC. | ARTILLERY. | |||||
| Guns and mortars | ||||||
| In | Guadalajara, | 1 | San Juan de Ulua, | 124 | ||
| " | Zacatecas, | 2 | Perote, | 35 | ||
| " | Jalapa, | 4 | Acapulco, | 22 | ||
| " | Perote, | 1 | Vera Cruz, | 113 | ||
| " | Vera Cruz, | 2 | Monterey, | |||
| " | Puebla, | 3 | Campeche, | |||
| " | Mexico, | 7 | Mazatlan, | |||
| " | Queretaro, | 1 | Mexico, | 6 | ||
| " | Guanajuato, | 2 | Tabasco, | 1 | ||
| " | S. Fernando de Rosas, | 2 | Guadalajara, | 9 | ||
| " | Matamoros, | 1 | San Luis Potosi, | 8 | ||
| " | Tampico, | 1 | Chiapas, | 2 | ||
| " | San Luis Potosi, | 2 | Chihuahua, | |||
| " | Oajaca, | 1 | Bustamante's division, | 4 | ||
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| 30 | 324 | |||||
Total number of projectiles, 52,019.
The field artillery consists of 16 batteries.
Navy.
The coast of the republic, now greatly reduced by the treaty of Guadalupe, extends on the Gulf of Mexico, from the Rio Grande or Rio Bravo del Norte, to the port of Bacalar on the east of the peninsula of Yucatan, and comprehends in this distance, about five hundred and eighty-four leagues. The Pacific coast begins one league from San Diego in Lower California, and terminates at the Barra de Ocos in the Gulf of Tehuantepec, a distance of one thousand five hundred and twenty leagues, including the coasts of the Gulf of California, or sea of Cortez. Consequently the coasts of the republic extend, in all, two thousand one hundred and four leagues, demonstrating the admirable situation of this country for commerce with all the world. The ports which are open for foreign trade in the Mexican Gulf, are Matamoros, Tampico, Vera Cruz Campeché, Sisal, and the island of Carmen; while, on the Pacific, there are the ports of Guayamas, Mazatlan, San Blas, Manzanillo, and Acapulco, the latter of these being the best in the possession of Mexico, on the great western ocean. Its harbor is excellent; its distance from the capital is comparatively short; its population is larger than that of other towns on the coast, and in consequence of the difficulty of landing elsewhere than in the actual port, the government is effectually secured against illicit trade. It is a site
