Modern history : or, the present state of all nations : describing their respective situations, persons, habits, buildings, manners, laws and customs, religion and policy, arts and sciences, trades, manufactures and husbandry, plants, animals and minerals ... . _ XoW r^/y/ -/{. n-tfi .Inmost miif\K>lh .11- ih^.n .,rl .V,„;^ai,li. .Uid uU u .irv nvm tht ^\ortn -to fftt% J:tJt hn rh. A/ A. ..,«.»•I lU .^.f^iJJ^. O F M E X I C O. CHAP. JI. Vulcanosand eiirth-quakes. Woods. The feas chiefbays andgulphs onthe north-£(ie. Cipe Catoih


Modern history : or, the present state of all nations : describing their respective situations, persons, habits, buildings, manners, laws and customs, religion and policy, arts and sciences, trades, manufactures and husbandry, plants, animals and minerals ... . _ XoW r^/y/ -/{. n-tfi .Inmost miif\K>lh .11- ih^.n .,rl .V,„;^ai,li. .Uid uU u .irv nvm tht ^\ortn -to fftt% J:tJt hn rh. A/ A. ..,«.»•I lU .^.f^iJJ^. O F M E X I C O. CHAP. JI. Vulcanosand eiirth-quakes. Woods. The feas chiefbays andgulphs onthe north-£(ie. Cipe Catoih. CapeHondu-las. Cape Came-ron. Cape GratiaDios. Gulphs onthe fouth-fidc. Capu Cori-entes. Lake of Ni-caragua. Lake ofMexico. almofl: impofliblc to penetrate tlicm, without cut-tint: a WAV through witli a There aic, in-deal, fonie bays, where it is tolerable land-ini; ; but there is much more of the mangrove land,where a man muft wade up to the middle in mud,before he can get to the dry ground. Beyond themangroves, indeed, we meet with fine favannahs ormeadows, Iving between little rifing hills ; and onthe north-weft coaft of tlieSouth-fea, near the Ciulphof California, the mountains come almofl clofe lothe fhore; ai;d there is none of thefe morafTes ormangrove lands, that we find in other places. And it is very remarkable, that the mountains onthe weft fide of Mexico, are moft of them \ulca-nos, fro


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