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About La Puerta [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] the land is very fine for tobacco, corn, and sugarcane. An English Company is now starting a plantation there and other clearings are being made along the RR. The plains of the middle of the Isth. are mainly used as stock ranges. From there to Coatzocoalcos there are but few signs of agriculture. The low plains from about 200 ft. to sea level are said to be mainly flooded during the rainy season and the country becomes a great swamp of mud. We saw no signs of this on this trip. 

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June 2d. Remained over at Coatzocoalcos. Found the [[strikethrough]] vice consu [[/strikethrough]] consular Agent Mr. Carpenter & attended to getting my specimens off my hands and then looked over the town. Was surprised to find nearly all the buildings to be made of lumber from the U.S. and the general appearance of the place, built of unattractive small frame buildings scattered over the townsite, was exactly that of a small railroad town in the western U.S.

The town owes its existence to the R.R. and the few small business houses are anxiously waiting for harbor works to be begun so to add to the business. The town is situated at the edge of the left hand bank of the Riv- Coatzocoalcos within a few hundred yds of the bar at the mouth of the Riv. Once across the bar there is plenty of water in the river for the large steamers to go even up to the