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182 classes being scattered over the metropolis, and oftentimes being found under the same roof.

The capital is indifferently watered by two aqueducts containing respectively clear and muddy water.

The supply is conducted by pipes to numerous tanks and open fountains located in all parts of the city, whence it is distributed for family use by a licensed corps of aguadores, or water-carriers. Their charges are from two cents to twelve and a half cents a load, according to the distance of the fountain from the place of delivery.

The public edifices and business houses are lighted with gas of inferior quality. In private dwellings kerosene-oil and stearine candles are generally used. Some quarters of the city are illuminated with lamps of gasoline or petroleum. Recently, the electric light has been employed on the Plaza mayor and adjacent streets.

We have not space enough to give a minute account of each one of the above objects of interest; accordingly, a brief reference will be made to them in the above order:

1. The tourist should ascend one of the towers (200 feet high) of the Cathedral for a view of the city (fee, one real). This edifice was commenced in 1573, and finished