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 Agrpeahy to my promise from New York, takp thls opportunity t6 give you a faint description O one of the principal scaputs of the Independent State o Yucatan--thlt af isal.

 Sisal IS an open roadsiead-there is no harbOr save what is entirely open to the sea. Vessels can not approach to within three or four miles of the shore Their various carg0es laden and unladen by the aid of canoes, which only approach them ln the early part of the day, when the wind is setting from the shore. Alter one two O'coek the trade winds set n blowing fresh from the north east, which makes so high a sea as 10 render it impossible to gp from the shore. There IS trade a Sisal. lt contains about 800 inhabitants, including the "Mestisos" native Indians, whu the aborng part of the population of this country. They entitled to all the privileges of frermen, including that of votng.-In number they amount to twothrds three fourths of the whole | population of Yucatan.

 At present shall noi attempt giving you any ideas of the political situation of ths country, as confess

 sufficiently cOnyersant with the Spanish lan- guage to satisfy myself in relation it. The white Spanish population of Sisa are very amable, kind and inofensiye race of people. In my business with those attached to the custom House, they have been uniformly anxious to afford facility in their power to the speedy arrangement in detail of all bu- siness growing out of their office. The business of the Custom House, in connection with the receipt of the products of the country from the interior, and the despatchng them board of th4 various vessels oi which they destined, with the unlading of vessels for Merida (the capital o the country, amounts to about the whole business of Ssal. These, with the other matters in connection with them, such por- terage to and from the Custom House, &c.,, afford employment for great number of " Mestisos." think they deserving of passing notice, as they are so unlike the Indians of North America, both in habits and disposition. In stature they about five feet six inches, sturdy and very strong and the ces of the legs and arms very strongly develop. | They carry immense loads, mostly on their backs, bending the body to angle of about 45 degrees the manner of carrying is by strap rope thrown around the forehead and then the burden. They sometimes, like our negroes, carry large load OH their head, but backing appears to be their fayori,e method.

 These Mestisos very quiet and docile, not at all disposed to be quarresome-but on the other hand, remarkably peaceful. have not a quar- rel, or any thing approaching one, since have been here.

 The dress of the men is quite simple-consisting only of frock shirt, reaching down to the thigh, with pair of very large towsers falling down about half way between the thigh and knee; but which is in most cases rolled up to the thigh, leaving the leg entirely bare.

 of the men, consisting of gown cut very low on the shoulders, falling down inst heow the knee, under which IS an under garment, dropping down about six inches below the frock, which is cases embro- dered around the skirt-b0th the men and women are invariably dressed in white, and it is very unu- sual thing to see them wnh dirty garment, save th.se employed in drudeery. I had forgot to mem ton in relation to the dress of the women that they always wear white veil, drawn around the forehead then thrown the back, allng down about tweil- ty inches.

 cam well conceive dress better adapted to the climate, than this-ncn an boys two men and girls are dressed precisely alike The appearance of Si- sal is not unlike Suvans Island, substituting the the coconn tree for the palmetto. The soil is white sand. The houses universally one story high built of stone, rather of stuccs cemented, and white washed inside and out. Tn. floor is of cement the roofs tlatched with palm leaf and are about six or eIght inches thick-they mpenetrabIe to the | rays of the sun, which with the thick walls make them very cool and comfortale--one thing is to me very remarkable, which is tho almost total absence of mosquitoes or sand fes-the days hot--he ther- mometer varying from 80 to s5 degrees but the eve nings very cool and comfortable.