6 Geograpbtcal motes on fl&ejico, 



Boundary with Guatemala. The boundary with Guatemala is fixed 

 by the treaties of September 27, 1882, and April i, 1895, and runs from 

 a point on the Pacific coast three leagues distant from the upper mouth 

 of the River Zuchiate, and thence, following the deepest channel 

 thereof, to the point at which it intersects the vertical plane which 

 crosses the highest point of the volcano of Tacana, and distant twenty- 

 five miles from the southernmost pillar of the gate of Talquian, leav- 

 ing that gate in the territory of Guatemala ; the determinate line by 

 the vertical plane defined above until it touches the River Zuchiate at 

 the point of its intersection with the vertical plane which passes the 

 summit of Buenavista and Ixbul ; the determinate line by the vertical 

 plane which passes the summit of Buenavista, determined by the astro- 

 nomical observations, and the summit of the Ixbul hill from where it 

 intersects the former to a point four kilometres beyond said hill ; 

 thence to the parallel of latitude which crosses the last-named point, 

 and thence eastward until it reaches the deepest channel of the Chixoy 

 up to its junction with the Usumacinta River, following that river 

 until it reaches the parallel situated twenty-five kilometres to the south 

 of Tenosique in Tabasco, to be measured from the principal square of 

 that town ; the parallel of latitude referred to above, from its inter- 

 section with the deepest channel of the Usumacinta, until it intersects 

 the meridian which passes at one third of the distance between the 

 centres of the Plazas of Tenosique and Sacluc, this distance being 

 calculated from Tenosique ; from this meridian, from its intersection 

 with the parallel above mentioned to the latitude of 17 49' ; and from 

 the intersection of this parallel with the latter meridian indefinitely 

 toward the east. 



The southern end of the Guatemalan line on the Pacific is in 14 24' 

 north latitude, while the northern end, on the Caribbean Sea, is in 17 

 49' north latitude, being a difference of 3 25' in favor of the latter. 

 The calculated length of the southern boundary is 642 miles. 



Boundary with Belize. To the southeast of Yucatan extends the 

 territory of Belize, occupied by a British settlement under a permit 

 granted to them by the Spanish Government to cut wood within the 

 limits mentioned in the treaty concluded between the Kings of Great 

 Britain and Spain on November 3, 1783, and amended on July 14, 

 1786. 



British Honduras, according to Mr. George Gil, F.R.G.S., in his 

 book, " British Colonies," published in London in 1896, was declared 

 a separate colony of Great Britain, under a Lieutenant-Governor sub- 

 ordinate to the Governor of Jamaica, in the year 1862, previous to 

 which time it had been a dependency of Jamaica. In 1884 a Governor 

 and Commander-in-Chief was appointed, by Letters Patent, and thus 

 the colony became independent of Jamaica. On April 30, 1859, Great 



