INDEX TO GEOGRAPHICAL AND 

 STATISTICAL NOTES. 



Agave, where found, 48 ; use, 48, 49 

 Agriculture, products, 243, 244 

 Alfalfa, how grown, and uses, 56 

 Alligator pear, use, 63 

 Americans in Mexico, cannot compete 



with Spaniards in frugality, 79 ; some 



Mexicans were afraid the country would 



become Americanized, 80 

 Area, of Mexico, 5, 91 ; of silver mines, 



13 ; of City of Mexico, 98, 107 

 Army, strength of, 99, 100 



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Bananas, where grown, cost, yield, and 



size, 61 ; export of, variety, an article 



of food, 62 

 Bancroft, H. H., referred to, 108 ; his 



statistics on drainage of Mexico, 274 

 Banks, names of, 131, 225, 226 ; National 



Bank of Mexico, 131 ; Bank of London 



and Mexico, 132 

 Bees, 71, 72 



Belize, occupied by, 6 ; boundary of, 7 

 Birds, 71, 72 

 Bolson de Mapimi, 12 

 Boundary of Mexico, with the United 



States, 5 ; with Guatemala, 6 ; with 



Belize, 6, 7 

 Brocklehurst, 109 

 Bucyrus Co., 277 

 Bustamante, Don Alejandro, 15 



Cables in Mexico, where located, 123 



Cactus, species, 51 



Cadereita, Marquis of, Viceroy, 273 



Canaigre, use, where found, 55 



Canal, size of, 270, 278, 279 ; lining of, 

 report on, 271 ; sum appropriated for 

 building of, and loan, 275 ; contracted 

 by, articles of contract, 277, 278 ; how 

 work carried out, 278 ; flow, 278, 279 ; 

 length of, 280 



Castillo, Bernal Diaz del, 19 



Catholics, wealth of, 93, 94 



Cattle, raising, export of, 56-8 ; cost of 

 fattening, lack of water, 57 



Cerralvo, Marquis de, his plan in regard- 

 to canal and tunnel, 272 



Cession of territory to the United States, 

 by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 

 by the Gadsden treaty, by treaty signed 

 at Washington with Mexico, 7, 8 



Charcoal, 4 



Chewing-gum, demand, production, 53 ; 

 value, 54 



City of Mexico, location and settlement 

 of old city, 107, 108, 267-9 I present 

 city, 108, 109, 268 ; public buildings, 

 109, no ; factories, no ; mortality, in, 

 114, 115, 279 ; threatened by an inun- 

 dation in 1604, often flooded in the 

 early days, 269 ; plan to change capi- 

 tal, 272 



Climate, rainfall, 35, 36 ; temperature, 

 36, 37 ; climatic conditions, 37, 38 \ 

 meteorological observations taken in 

 several cities of Mexico, 38, 40, 41 ; 

 meteorological observations taken in 

 several localities of Mexico, 39 ; Mex- 

 ico as a sanitarium, 41, 42 ; of City of 

 Mexico, no, in; meteorology in the 

 Mexican Republic, in, 114; climato- 

 logical data of the City of Mexico, 112 ; 

 summary of meteorological observa- 

 tions of the City of Mexico, 113 ; good 

 for work, 128 ; of City of Mexico, 274,. 



275 



Clouds, 38 

 Coal, cost of, and mining, 22 ; coal-fields,, 



23-5 



Cochineal, where cultivated, price, 53 

 Cocoa, where produced, 51, 52 ; disad- 

 vantages of raising, 52 

 Cocoa-nuts, where grown, use, 62, 63 

 Coffee, best location, production, 44, 45 r 

 advantages and disadvantages of rais- 

 ing, 127 



Coinage of precious metals, gold and 

 silver, 21 ; mints, 27, 109 



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