CHAPTER XXII {VI of Vol. II}

Visit to the Mining Town of Jesus-Maria -- Critical Roads -- Character of the Town -- Losing Speculations -- Mine of Santa Juliana -- Curious mining Operations -- Different Modes of working the Ore -- The Crushing-mill, etc. -- _Barras de Plata_ -- Value of Bullion -- The Silver Trade -- Return to Chihuahua -- Resumption of the regular Narrative -- Curious Wholesales -- Money Table -- Redundancy of Copper Coin -- City of Chihuahua and its Peculiarities -- Ecclesiastical Architecture -- Hidalgo and his Monument -- Public Works, and their present Declension -- _Fête_ in honor of Iturbide -- Illiberality towards Americans -- Shopping Mania -- Anti-Masonic _Auto de Fe_, 178