International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

No. 393. Mr. Morgan to Mr. Frelinghuysen .

, as my official duties have kept me almost constantly at my post of duty. Only once have I been ten days away from the capital, and those ten days I spent at Orizaba, where I went at the advice of my physician. I have, however, been as far north as Lagos, on the line of the Central Railroad. All the valleys between these two points, and they are many and of considerable extent, appeared to me naturally fertile and susceptible of successful cultivation, and no country which I have ever seen appeared better adapted to the use of improved agricultural implements and labor-saving machines. I have…