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Title, creator, publisher and date checked against the catalogue record on 2026-10-19 by an automated check. The Wikisource Index record (J. Dewing and Co., 1884) and the Wikimedia Commons record of the scan (Internet Archive item travelsinmexi00ober) agree on the author and year; chapter 17 spans images 335–356. Date confirmed to the year. SmellBook publishes only the citation, the location of the passage and its own claim, never the work’s text.
In his 1884 travel book Travels in Mexico and Life Among the Mexicans, Frederick A. Ober writes that the air around the flower market on the western side of the Plaza Mayor in Mexico was delightfully fragrant.
One traveller's impression of a single market, published in 1884; it records what he noticed then, not how flower markets smell today.EXTERNAL RECORD