Of course, this salt is very coarse and very watery; all salt made in this way is.

It suits the New Orleans people better to import salt from England, than to make it in this way in the Gulf of Mexico, though the water there is very salt, and the sun very hot.

The fact, that it pays to carry salt on mules' backs, tells volumes about the state of the country.

At the lowest computation, the mules would do four or five times as much work if they were set to draw any kind of cart--however rough--on a carriageable road.

It is true that there is some sort of road from here to Tampico, but an English waggoner would not acknowledge it by that name at all; and the muleteers are still in possession of most of the traffic in this district, as indeed they are over almost all the country.
It was mid-day by this time; and, as we could not get to the Rio Grande without taking our chance for the night in some Indian rancho, we turned back.