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The scientific men of the country have made several attempts to calcine this earth, mistaking it for the porcelain earth proceeding from decomposed strata of feldspar. We stayed some hours with a very intelligent family, named Ustariz, at Concesion. Their house, which contains a collection of choice books, stands on an eminence, and is surrounded by plantations of coffee and sugar-cane.
The former I regard as an honour, but the latter means very little to me. I should prefer to have been born in a mountain hamlet or in a small coast town, rather than in a city of summer visitors and hotel keepers. Garat, who was a most conventional person who lived in Bayonne, always used to maintain that he came from Ustariz.
He fell in love with her, but as he was only seventeen years old, the Marquis of Ustariz, who was in charge of Bolivar in Madrid, advised him to delay his plans for an early marriage.
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