| (a substitute for saffron, and a very rich
| dye), starch from the _yuca_, cotton, wax,
| honey, molasses, sugar, rum, castor oil,
| salt, amber, vanilla, hogs, cochineal.
|
Island of Carmen | Logwood.
|
Seiba-playa | Timber, rice, logwood, and salt.
|
Bacalar | Logwood, valuable timber, sugar of inferior
| quality, tobacco of the best description,
| rum, a fine species of hemp, known under
| the name of _pita_, resin, India-rubber,
| gum copal, pimento, sarsaparilla, vanilla,
| and gypsum.
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POPULATION OF YUCATAN.

Statement showing the number of inhabitants in the five departments
into which the state is divided, distinguishing the sexes; taken from
the census made by order of the government on the 8th of April, 1841.

|------------------|----------|----------|-----------|
|Departments | Men. | Women. | Total. |
|----------------------------------------|-----------|
|Merida | 48,606 | 58,663 | 107,269 |
|Izamal | 32,915 | 37,933 | 70,848 |
|Tekax | 58,127 | 64,697 | 122,824 |
|Valladolid | 45,353 | 46,926 | 92,279 |
|Campeachy | 39,017 | 40,639 | 79,656 |
| |----------|----------|-----------|
| | | | 472,876 |
|------------------|----------|----------|-----------|

NOTE.--"This census is probably not very exact, because, having
continually the fear of new contributions, and detesting military
service, every one reduces as far as possible the number of his family
in the lists prepared for the census. It appears to me that the total
population of Yucatan may be fixed at 525,000 souls."--P. De R.

"The best information I have been enabled to obtain goes to show that
the population of the state cannot fall short of 600,000 souls."--J. B.
Jr.

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SYSTEM ADOPTED BY THE ANCIENT BUILDERS OF YUCATAN IN COVERING THEIR
ROOMS WITH STONE ROOFS.

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