. Guide to Mexico . are not exempt from frost, whilecocoanuts abound on the coast, and mangoes, alli-gator pears, and other delicate fruits of the tropicsare on the coast and up to the center of the coffeebelt. Lower than one thousand feet above sea level,and more than five thousand feet above sea level,is not suited to coffee growing. A little more than one hundred miles from theport of Vera Cruz, the inhabited country risesmore than eight thousand feet above the sea level,and the uninhabited to more than seventeen thou-sand feet, where eternal snow crowns the moun-tain above twelve thousand
. Guide to Mexico . are not exempt from frost, whilecocoanuts abound on the coast, and mangoes, alli-gator pears, and other delicate fruits of the tropicsare on the coast and up to the center of the coffeebelt. Lower than one thousand feet above sea level,and more than five thousand feet above sea level,is not suited to coffee growing. A little more than one hundred miles from theport of Vera Cruz, the inhabited country risesmore than eight thousand feet above the sea level,and the uninhabited to more than seventeen thou-sand feet, where eternal snow crowns the moun-tain above twelve thousand feet. Forty milesfrom the snow line is the cream of the coffee belt. The City of Mexico is nearly eight thousandfeet high; and corn, wheat, barley, peaches, apples,grapes, pears aiul strawljerries grow in many sec-tions of altitude between six thousand and eightthousand feet. The high country is not exemptfrom frost, though fresh strawberries are in themarket of tlie City of Mexico every day in theyear. pp o <1 c. 13 GUIDE TO MEXICO. Cattle, sheep, goats and hogs ahound in nearlyall the high country, though long droughts renderthat part of ^lexico unsafe for small farmers fromthe United States. It is also the pulque country,where the national drink of Mexico grows in thejuice of a plant, a very profitable industry, thoughsome seven years are required to make it produc-tive. The State of Jalisco, of which Guadalajara, theprettiest Spanish-American city on the continent,,is the capital, is a good liealthy country. Butthere is not that diversity of crops that makes theVera Cruz belt the garden spot of the Eepublic,although oranges and sugar do well, and otherfruits abound low down on the Pacific side, whileno part of the country boasts finer cattle. It isnot a coffee country and has no transportation,,except all rail, without competition. Guadalajara has one hundred thou-sand inhabitants, and is a manufacturing city ofconsiderable promise, with room for enterprise. Th
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