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TRAVEI1S 'INA:!"RICA.The superficial ohservationis excited todeCide very differently as tG)the firstof these articl~s,on viewing the soils. As to the waters, whenthey descend fresh from tllemeuntain..skirts ,here,~iewedin their ,bedsthey are of a blood~reddeep tin~e;: btlt taken upin a glass theyarecolourless, and, for riverwater, excellent. After 'breakfasting,by desireof Saadi Tor Finiss, ,whocould notyetrejoin theescort, it proceededwithout him through an extensive plain, themountain :towering with ttsuccessive range of rounded summits ,on the ,t,4gh,t,and rrugged barremhillocks, by theiroutline,apparently scbistose, dosing,thehorizon ~n the\left. Thisplainis DOW thicJdystudded w;ith Arab camt)S,80~le of\which are prodigiausly numerous in .tents; but the numbers of themin eac~, generally ta'ken,vary betweeD tweD~yand sixty;.The .agci­'Culture of thesepeoplecfi>ntinuesto 'bevery Jar irom .despicahle.Much worseisseen in Europe; and in~ts nrst nations .too.iI~rigation.,however, .ls the'grand ,operative; .it ishere bot'h tuatrix .and stimu!usfor the whitecrops, andlleavy returns are thus produced. As ,here ilan over..proportioD of land to occupants, and as the produceis beyou&the demand, when a tract begins to fail in Hs returns., it is ahandonedto recover its fertil:ity by lime.rrhis process serves the pm'pose of itsArab cultivators; and tracts of excellent arableiand are ,constantly metas proofs, bem'ing the marks of irrigati