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 PaRRAs, (Lal 25s. 26' ) Mexico. Dec '.

 Alter d most iatiguing and distressing march we have reached Psrras, of the most considerable towns in Coahuia. and long celebrated for it's upe- rior wines. We have encamped in beautiful val lev two miles from town From this point very comprehensiye view of he town is obtained; you trace its narrow and crooked streets, which appear to have been planned without method and built up without meaning; you see it's fat-rooied buildings with ihe long lines of water-gntters projecting from each frori. having the appearance Of guns from a forti6caiion; you see ihe hospital, now going as

 many of it's inmates have gone before i the college, the es CT churches in ruins, and the great cathedral towering above all a monument and mockery ef Christianity.

 The houses are. with few exceptions, of adots, the walls generally plastered and of great thickness. Rude attempts al sculpture are common amorg the better class of houses the doors and windows are frequently eaborately carved. There seems 10 be no particular order oi architecture adopted, but the houses have general resemblance, strength and du- rabllity being the ends principally aimed at. Zach enc is a castle in self and capable of being strong ly defended. Parapeis 10 ihe roofs are common, from behind which ihe most effective lire could be poured upon an enemy, without exposing the person of the defender. The shops of Parias have been well paironized, and the people perhaps have not seen such prosperous times since lhe Vice Roy ei