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APPENDIX. 



In the preceding paper I stated that I would give as an appendix 

 some data concerning several subjects treated in the same, and I now 

 append the documents mentioned ; the first one being a paper pub- 

 lished in the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New 

 York for March 31, 1894, under the title of " Mexico a Central 

 American State," the second, some itineraries of the principal roads 

 in Mexico, which show the broken surface of that country, and the 

 third and last, a paper on the " Drainage of the Valley of Mexico," 

 published by the Engineering Magazine of New York, Vol. viii., No. 4, 

 for January, 1895. 



MEXICO A CENTRAL AMERICAN STATE. 



In the chapter of this paper entitled " Location, Boundaries, and 

 Area," I referred, (page 9) to an article under the above heading, which 

 I published in the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society of New 

 York of March 31, 1894, and offered to give it in the appendix. That 

 paper is the following : 



MEXICO A CENTRAL AMERICAN STATE. 1 



There is in this city a social gathering of ladies and gentlemen 

 called " The Travellers' Club," meeting weekly during the winter of 

 each year, for the purpose of studying a foreign country, on the sup- 

 position that its members are then travelling in that particular country, 

 and with that view papers are read referring to the same, and they are 

 illustrated with an exhibition of views and objects manufactured in the 

 country under study, and of everything else that may contribute to 

 impart more or less complete information regarding the place supposed 

 to be visited. 



During the winter of 1887-88 Mexico was chosen as the country un- 

 der study by the club, and for that reason I received at the beginning 

 of the year 1888 an invitation to attend some of its sessions, and to say 

 something about the Republic. I accepted the invitation to attend 

 some session, but stated to the invitation committee that, not having 

 time to prepare a paper, I would only give some general notions on 



1 This article was published in the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 

 of New York of March 31, 1894, and it is inserted here without any changes. Al- 

 though the data contained in this article was published in the years 1887 and 1893, as 

 it refers to the area which has not changed, I have not thought it necessary to revise 

 the same. So far as the Mexican States are concerned, I have later and more accu- 

 rate data ; but the differences are insignificant, and it is not worth while to notice 

 them. As regards the population, the increase has been proportionate ; in respect to 

 all the countries mentioned in this article there is no marked change in the general 

 proportions. 



