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d. A family of German descent, exposed as partly Chino Mexican. The 

 bony framework of the subjects not having been modified ; the physiog- 

 nomy, due to the integuments, is common to all the children, but the elder 

 sister's face (2 is darkened by a shade of pigment in the mucous coat. In 

 1. and 4. it is said to be detectable in the lunu. 



The working of our little Invasion was about this : Valdes' army was 

 made up, certainly more than half of it, of men of Northern Indian IHood. 

 They were moving south. Some of them might return, perliaps not 

 many. Wiicn the company of Saragossa was marched off from that place, 

 I saw a crowd of their women assembled to weep and wail over them in 

 half Indian style, as if it were about to prove their last farewell. Other 

 recruits who had left the pueblo under similar auspices had not returned. 

 Their fate had been to die in battle, or of disease, or of the effects of 

 wounds and exposure — or to embrace permanently the military career, in 

 which case the elite of them found employment as regulars in the 

 City of Mexico, or elsewhere in the provinces not far from the National 

 Capital. The average man thus, after directly killing or contributing by 

 impoverishment to starve a given number of the more industrious and 

 peaceable members of races of the South, would become a southern resi- 

 dent, and leave descendants of his own. South, who would be half North- 

 ern and half Southern ; that is, it might be, half warlike and lazy, half 

 industrious and inoffensive. 



Esteeming it a compliment to have been invited to express my opinions 

 upon the poliMcal condition of Mexico at this interesting juncture, I will 

 not consider it beneath the dignity of Science to notice the subject from an 

 Ethnological point of view. 



The North, as well as the rest of Mexico, presents a clearly marked case of 

 Arrksted Nation.\l Development. The natural tendency of the different 

 populations of Mexico to unite in one having been interfered with three cen- 

 turies and a half ago by an outside pressure, and this pressure having been 

 withdrawn, its effect upon the national life is now seen to have been unfav- 

 orable. Not only the political health, but, to persevere in the use of mj' fig- 

 ure, the existence itself of Mexico as a nation is menaced. The thouixhtful 

 observer is left in doubt whether, for the welfare of the people of ^lexico, 

 a synthetic or a further analytic treatment of their confederac}' is most de- 

 manded. Tlie former may be premature, the latter, now going on so 

 rapidly, risks being carried too far. ]\rany honest thinkers are of ojnnion 

 that it would be beneficent to restore the foreign pressure, or an equivalent 

 for it. In my opinion it would be but a reproduction of the original evil. 



With your indulgence I will enlarge upon this theme, for brevity and to 

 aVoid confusion soliciting you to restrict the application of my remarks of 

 a general nature to the Central Table Lands, of which we may popularly 

 speak with least inaccuracy as Mexico. 



At the epoch when the Wars of the Roses, Welsh wars and Scotch wars 

 were preparing for Great Britain a United England ; when the various ele- 

 ments already united as Gascons, Bretons, Picards, Normans were con- 



