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SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL DISASTER.

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industries languished, and a crowd of quarrelsome ecclesiastics and indolent officials gathered in the wealth of the community. Flood and earthquake were among the causes that made the term of Salvatierra's administration memorable as one fraught with disaster to the people of Mexico.^[1]

↑ A town named after the viceroy was founded in Guanajuato, and in the following year declared a city. Quintana, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Bol., 2da ép. i. 579. The ground, an immense tract of land, had been given by a certain Alderete under condition that a yearly rent of 2,000 pesos be paid to him and his descendants in honor of the donation. Romero, Not. Mich., 223-5. Salvatierra was a man of simple manners, and much averse to the burdensome etiquette connected with his position. He frequently gave cause of offence to the oidores by his unceremonious conduct, and sometimes incurred severe rebukes from the crown.

[1] A town named after the viceroy was founded in Guanajuato, and in the following year declared a city. Quintana, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Bol., 2da ép. i. 579. The ground, an immense tract of land, had been given by a certain Alderete under condition that a yearly rent of 2,000 pesos be paid to him and his descendants in honor of the donation. Romero, Not. Mich., 223-5. Salvatierra was a man of simple manners, and much averse to the burdensome etiquette connected with his position. He frequently gave cause of offence to the oidores by his unceremonious conduct, and sometimes incurred severe rebukes from the crown.

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