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MEXICO, CENTRAL AMEBICA, WEST INDIES. 



It should be noticed that the transitions between Spaniards and Mestizoes, 

 between Mestizoes and Mansos, are far less abrupt about the capital than in the 

 northern regions, where the populations are scattered over a much wider area, 



Fig. 31. — Poet of Siguantaneo. 

 Scale 1 : 42,000. 



ior34 



or32- 



0t0 5 



Fathoms. 



Depths. 



5 to 10 



Fathoms. 



10 to 25 

 Fathoms. 



25 Fathoms 

 and upwards. 



2,200 Yards. 



and where the divisions between the races are more sharply drawn. In those 

 regions miscegenation has taken place to a smaller extent ; till recently the 

 struggle between the hostile elements was still continued, and was occasionally 

 attended by massacres on both sides. 



