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Humboldt Arrives in Mexico.
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cious. He personally inspected the great mines of Guanajuato, and caused to be completed the great work known

FAÇADE OF CASA DE LAS MONJAS.

as the "king's bridge" on the chief highway between Vera Cruz and the capital, and now known as the Puente Nacional.