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Navigation, number of vessels, 237 ; ves- 

 sels arrived at Mexican ports in 1895, 

 238; vessels departed from Mexican 

 ports in 1895, 239; foreign passengers 

 arrived at Mexican ports in 1895, 240 ; 

 foreign passengers departed from Mex- 

 ican ports in 1895, 241 ; resume of 

 vessels and passengers arrived and de- 

 parted by rail and ports in 1895, 242 ; 

 vessels arrived and departed from Mex- 

 ican ports in 1894-96, 243 



Navy, strength of, 100 



Netzahualcoyotl, saw the necessity for a 

 drainage canal, 267 ; one of the dikes 

 built by, 268 



Newspapers, 106 



Noyes, Theodore W., Mexico and Egypt, 



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Ophidians, 71 



Oranges, where and how raised, irrigation, 

 distillation, 59 ; flavor, yield compared 

 with coffee, Frederico Atristain re- 

 ferred to, the cyclone in Florida, 60 



Orography, mountains and plateaus, 29- 

 32 ; elevation of mountain ranges, 31 



Papaya, use, 63 



Patents, number of, 132 



Pearson, S., & Son, contractors for canal, 

 277 



Peat, 23, 24 



Peppermint, where grown, 55 



Pineapples, uses, where grown, 62 



Political organizations of Mexico, of 

 Federal Government, 98, 99 



Political parties, Church, its wealth, 93, 

 94 ; Liberal, 94 



Population of Mexico, increase of, 76, 77 ; 

 decrease of Mexican Indians, 77, 78 ; 

 from 1795 to 1895, 89 ; parts most 

 thickly settled, 90; of United Mexi- 

 can States, 91 



Position of Mexico, 9 



Postal service, number of offices and 

 agencies, 123, 124 ; mail carried, re- 

 ceipts, 133 ; post-offices in Mexico in 

 1895, 223 ; earnings and expenditures 

 of post-offices from 1869-96, 224 ; 

 number of postal pieces transported 

 from 1878-95, 225 



Prescott, History of Conquest of Mexico, 

 268 



Profiles, MeAican, from Veracruz to 

 Mexico by the Mexican Railway, from 

 Apizaco to Puebla, a branch of the 

 Mexican Railway, 253 ; from Veracruz 

 to Mexico by the Interoceanic Railway, 



from the City of Mexico to Morelos 

 by a branch of the Interoceanic, 254 ; 

 from Puebla to Izucar de Matamoros, a 

 branch of the Interoceanic, 255 ; from 

 the City of Mexico to El Paso del 

 Norte by the Central Mexican, 255-7 ; 

 from Aguascalientes to Tampico by the 

 Mexican Central, 257, 258 ; from Ira- 

 puato to Guadalajara, a branch of the 

 Mexican Central, 258 ; from the City 

 of Mexico to Laredo Tamaulipas by 

 the Mexican National, 258-60 ; from 

 Acambaroto Patzcuaro, a branch of 

 the Mexican National, 261 ; from 

 Piedras Negras to Durango by the 

 Mexican International, 261, 262 ; from 

 Sabinas to Hondo, a branch of the 

 Mexican International, 262 ; from the 

 City of Mexico to Cuernavaca and 

 Acapulco, 262, 263 ; from Puebla to 

 Oaxacabythe Mexican Southern, 263; 

 from Coatzacoalcos to Salina Cruz by 

 the National Tehuantepec, 263, 264 ; 

 from the City of Mexico to Pachuca by 

 the Hidalgo and Northeastern Railway, 

 from San Augustin to Irolo, a branch 

 of the Hidalgo Railway, 264 ; from 

 Durango to Mazatlan by bridle path, 

 from Manzanillo to Guadalajara by 

 wagon road, 265 ; from Tehuacan to 

 Oaxaca and Puerto Angel by wagon 

 road, 266 



Publications about Mexico, non-official, 

 134 ; newspapers, 228 



Public lands, granted to Indians and 

 Spaniards, survey of, 124 ; division of, 

 124, 125 ; price of, 125 ; titles of, 227, 

 228 



Pulque, where and how cultivated, 48, 

 49 ; fermentation of, expense and profit, 

 50 ; thorn and root useful, 51 



Purpose of this paper, 244 



Quicksilver, production of, 23 

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Railway itineraries (see Profiles) 

 Railways in Mexico, history of, 115, 116 ; 

 extent, 116, 119; President Diaz's policy 

 on, 117, 118 ; President Diaz's statistics 

 on, 119; financial condition of, 119- 

 21 ; length of, passengers and tons 

 carried, 133 ; mileage in operation 

 October 31, 1896, 193-5 ; resume of, 

 195 ; Mexican Central, 196, 197 ; 

 Mexican National, 196-8 ; Mexican In- 

 ternational, 199, 200 ; Mexican South- 

 ern, 200, 201 ; Mexican Railroad, 201 ; 

 Interoceanic Railway, Sonora Railway, 

 Hidalgo and Northeastern Railway, 

 202 ; Merida and Progreso Railway, 

 Tehuacan and Esperanza Railway, 



