This page has been validated.
506
HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL
Leagues.
| |
|
31 |
|
48 |
|
195 |
|
245 |
Although the means of correspondence existing between one place and another may be sufficient for carrying on the general routine of national or individual concerns, still there are many difficulties to be overcome before the roads can be made properly serviceable for an extensive domestic or foreign trade.
The bounty of nature and the indolence arising from the apathy in which the people have been purposely kept by the old government, have induced them to put up with many privations, which, by a little reasonable exertion, they might avoid.
Maize which is sold in Quesaltenango, a province of Guatemala, for from four to