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pop. 75,000), with the district Tlascala ; Oaxaca (cap. do., pop. 33,000, 

 XaHsco, Cinaloa, with Sonora and Mechoacan. Eastern states, on the 

 map Nos. 18, 12, and 14, are Tabasco, Tamaulipas (cap. Tampico), and 

 Vera Cruz. Interior states, Nos. 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, on our map, 

 are : Queretaro (cap. do., with 20,000 inhabitants) ; Guanaxato (cap. do., 

 pop. 50,000) ; Zacatecas (cap. do., pop. 22,000) ; Cohahuila ; New Leon 

 (cap. Monterey, pop. 15,000) ; San Luis Potosi (cap. do., with 32,000 

 inhabitants) ; Chiapa. There are also three territories : Lower California, 

 a peninsula, nearly 700 miles long, Colima, and Tlascala. 



The province of Yucatan, of from 42-63,000 square geographical miles, 

 and with 6-700,000 inhabitants, since 1841 has formed an independent free 

 state. The cap. is Merida, with 28,000 inhabitants. 



The English possess a settlement on the south-eastern coast of the 

 peninsula of Yucatan, namely Balize or Honduras. 



6. Free States of Central America. 



These states, situated to the south of Mexico, have an area of 169-190,000 

 square statute miles, with 5-600,000 white, and about one million and a 

 half of Indian inhabitants. From 1821 to 1823, they formed part of the 

 Mexican confederacy; from the 1st of July, 1823 to 1839, they constituted 

 a separate confederacy, which in 1839 dissolved into the following five 

 independent republics : the four first, however, formed a new confederacy 

 on the 7th October, 1842. 1. Guatemala, area 28,000 square statute miles, 

 with 950,000 inhabitants, cap. New Guatemala, with 55,000 inhabitants. 

 2. San Salvador, 24,000 square statute miles, pop. 350,000, cap. San 

 Salvador, with 31,000 inhabitants. 3. Nicaragua, area 30,000 square 

 statute miles, pop. 350,000, of which one half are Ladinos (mixture 

 of Whites and Indians), one third Indians, and one sixth Mulattoes and 

 Blacks ; cap. Leon, with 50,000 inhabitants. 4. Honduras, 81,000 square 

 statute miles, with from 200-350,000 inhabitants, cap. New Valladolid or 

 Comayagua, pop. 18,000. 5. Costa Rica, or Isthmus of Panama, area 33,000 

 square statute miles, pop. 180,000 ; cap. San Jose (da Costa), pop. 20,000. 



The eastern part of the peninsula of Honduras is occupied by the 

 Mosquito Indians, who have there a so-called kingdom under the protection 

 of the English, cap. Blewfield. 



B. WEST INDIES. 



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By this is to be understood the numerous chain of islands situated in 

 front of or in the Caribbean Sea, and lying between the parallels of 10° and 

 27° N. lat. Together they present an area of about 92,800 square statute 

 miles, with a pop. of some three millions, mostly negroes and mulattoes (one 

 million of slaves) ; about one sixth of the number are whites. With few 

 exceptions they belong to six European powers, as follows : 



I. The Great Antilles, four in number. 1. Cuba, 435880 square 



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