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LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



FIO. 

 1. 



10. 



11. 



12. 

 13. 

 14. 

 15. 

 16. 



17. 

 18. 

 19. 

 20. 

 21. 

 22. 

 23. 



24. 



25. 

 26. 

 27. 

 28. 

 29. 



30. 

 31. 

 32. 

 33. 

 34. 

 35. 

 36. 

 37. 

 38. 

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 41. 

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 46. 



Central American Istkmuses and Inland 



Seas .... 

 citlaltepetel — vlew taken feoii near 



Orizaba ..... 

 Political States of Central America . 

 Mexico before tlie Annexation to the 



United States .... 

 Predominant Races in Central America 

 Canals and Routes across the Isthmuses 

 rirst Mexican Itineraries, 1517 to 1550 

 Chief Positions scientifically determined in 



Mexico .... 

 Regions studied by the Officers of the 



French Expedition 

 Relief of Mexico 

 Jorullo, according' to Humboldt 

 Orizaba Peak ..... 

 Volcanoes of Mexico ... 



Igneous Regions and Volcanoes of Mexico 

 Convergence of the two Sierra Madi-es 

 Various Altitudes of the Mexican Moun 



tains and Towns .... 

 Tamaulipas Coast Lagoons 

 Coalzacoalcos Bar .... 

 The Regla Falls .... 

 Lake Chapala ..... 

 Colorado Estuary .... 

 Closed Basins of Mexico . 

 Ai-ea of the Mexican Lakes at Various 



Periods .... 

 Vertical Disposition of the Mexican 



Climates 



Isothermals of Mexico modified by Altitude 

 Vegetable Zones in Mexico 

 Extent of the Aztec Conquests . 

 Aetificial Pyramid op Cholula 

 Sacred Stone of Tizoc, in the Musettm 



OF Mexico ..... 

 First Conquests of Cortes . 

 Port of Siguantaneo .... 

 Scene of the War of Independence . 

 Chief Native Populations in Mexico . 

 Water-Caerier and Tortillas Woman 

 Chief Native Races in Mexico 

 Prevailing Diseases in Mexico 

 La Paz .... 

 Guaymas .... 

 Mazatlan .... 

 Cathedeal of Chihuahua 

 Tampico .... 

 Zacatecas .... 

 San Luis Potosi— Goveexment 

 San Bias .... 

 ManzanUlo 

 Ancient Mexico 



Palace 



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Cathedral of Mexico 

 Mexico and its Environments 

 Tlalpam and Lake Xochimilco . 

 Indian Maeket-Gaedener's Canoe . 



Puebla in 1862 



Orizaba ...... 



Successive Displacements of Vera Cruz 

 From Vera Cruz to Anton Lizaido . 

 Harbour Works in Progress at Vera Cruz 

 Acapulco ...... 



Chief Ruins of Central Mesiec . 

 Isthmus of Tehuantepec . 

 Salina Cruz, the new Port of Tehuantepec 

 Miuatitlan, Northern Port of Tehuantepec 

 Bank of Yucatan .... 



Alacran Reef ..... 



The Usumacinta — View taken at the 



Paso Yalchilan, on the Guatemalan 



Frontier ..... 

 Mouths of the Grijalva and Usumacinta 

 Termines Lagoon .... 

 The Rio of Yucatan .... 

 Maya Youths . . . ^ . 

 ('hief Ruing of Y^'ucatan 

 Ruins in the Lacandon and Tzendal Coun 



tries ...... 



Merida and North -West Yucatan 

 Density of the Population in Mexico . 

 pulquero ...... 



Maguey Plantations, San Feancisûuito 



District, near Mexico 

 Chief Agricultural Produce in Mexico 

 The World's Yield of Silver . 

 The World's Yield of the Precious Metal 

 Yield of Gold and Silver in Various CouU' 



tries since 1492 . 

 Chief Mineral Regions of Mexico 

 The Boca del Monte Ascent 

 Mexican Railway Systems in LS90 . 

 Political Divisions of Mexico 

 British Honduras .... 

 Parallelism of the Old and Recent Water 



coui'ses ..... 

 Belize and the Cockscomb Mountains 

 Domains of British Hondui'as . 

 Old Straits in Central America . 

 Political Divisions of Central America 

 Trend of the Guatemalan Ranges 

 Chain of the Fuego Volcano 

 Antigua : Ruins of Cheistchukch, Agua 



Volcano in the Backgeound 

 Pacaya Volcano .... 



Golfo Dulce and the Lower Motagua 

 Landscape in South Guatemala — Bamboo 



Jungle 



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