. The earth and its inhabitants .. . /"5l oF breenwich 83°40' 12 Miles Agodin Lanqnin, where a little affluent of the Polochic has its source. A good carriage-road running south-east and east through the villages of Tactic, TaiaaJtu, Tueuni, and Telenian, leads to the riverain port of Faiizos, where the local produce is forwarded by a small steamer down the Polochic to the Golfo Dulce. No trace now remains of the Nueva Sevilla, founded in 1544 near the mouth of the Polochic ; but in 1825 the English established in the district the colony of Ahhotsi'ille [Boca Nueva), which Avas not more s
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . /"5l oF breenwich 83°40' 12 Miles Agodin Lanqnin, where a little affluent of the Polochic has its source. A good carriage-road running south-east and east through the villages of Tactic, TaiaaJtu, Tueuni, and Telenian, leads to the riverain port of Faiizos, where the local produce is forwarded by a small steamer down the Polochic to the Golfo Dulce. No trace now remains of the Nueva Sevilla, founded in 1544 near the mouth of the Polochic ; but in 1825 the English established in the district the colony of Ahhotsi'ille [Boca Nueva), which Avas not more successful than its Spanish predecessor. Liherlad, capital of the department of Peten, better known by its Indian name of Sacluc, lies on an affluent of the Pasion, a main branch of the Usumacinta. The few inhabitants of the surrounding savannas are occupied chiefly in stock- breeding. Excellent pasturage is afforded by the whole of this lake-studded region stretching northwards in the direction of Yucatan. An island in the
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