. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. mountains of Chiapas. There are two navigable rivers, the Usumacintaand the Tabasco. There is a large amount of freight shipped on thesestreams, as they are the principal thoroughfares of the State. An unusualamount of mahogany and other useful woods abound. All tropical products are extensively cultivated and magnificentopportunities for further development areoffered. The capital and largest city is SanJuan Bautista. Cortes and the Spanisharmy discovered Tabasco and made alanding there before they went on toMexico. It
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. mountains of Chiapas. There are two navigable rivers, the Usumacintaand the Tabasco. There is a large amount of freight shipped on thesestreams, as they are the principal thoroughfares of the State. An unusualamount of mahogany and other useful woods abound. All tropical products are extensively cultivated and magnificentopportunities for further development areoffered. The capital and largest city is SanJuan Bautista. Cortes and the Spanisharmy discovered Tabasco and made alanding there before they went on toMexico. It was then a very popularplace, with the better houses built ofstone and lime and the others of mudor adobe. The inhabitants, the Tabas-can Indians, gave proof of superior re-finement as well as unusual valor. Theirstout resistance, however, did not preventCortes and his soldiers from finally gain-ing and capturing the country in thename of the of the Spanish conquerors settled in Tabasco; others, in the cordilleratoward the rich slopes and valleys of GENERAL ABRAHAM BANDALA, GOVERNOROF TABASCO. CAMPECHE, TABASCO, CHIAPAS 483 A great deal of the country is sloping and very much broken, but at leastfour-fifths could be well cultivated. Coffee always requires a slope. The
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