358 DISTRICTS OR INTENDANCIES. 
2. Intendancy of New Biscay, to the south-west of the Rio 
del Norte, on the central table-land. 
B. North-western Region, in the vicinity of the Pacific Ocean. 
3. Province of New California, on the north-west coast of 
North America. 
4. Province of Old California, the southern extremity of which 
enters the torrid zone. 
5. Intendancy of La Sonora, which also passes the tropic. 
C. North-eastern Region, adjoining the Gulf of Mexico. 
6. Intendancy of San Luis Potosi. 
II. In the Torrip ZonE—36,500 square leagues ; 
5,160,000 inhabitants, or 141 to the square league— 
(471,470 square miles ; inhabitants 11 to the square 
mile). 
D. Central Region. 
7. Intendancy of Zacatecas. 
8. Intendancy of Guadalaxara. 
9. Intendancy of Guanaxuato. 
10. Intendancy of Valladolid. 
1]. Intendancy of Mexico. 
12. Intendancy of Puebla. 
13. Intendancy of Vera Cruz. 
E. South-western Region. 
14. Intendancy of Oaxaca. 
15. Intendancy of Merida. 
Without attempting to present an analysis of our 
author’s statistical account of these different pro- 
vinces, we shall select from his descriptions those 
parts which may prove most interesting to the 
general reader. 
1. The intendancy of Mexico is entirely within 
the torrid zone. More than two-thirds of it are 
mountainous, and contain extensive plains elevated 
from 2131] to 2451 feet above the sea. Only one 
summit, the Nevado de Tolucca, 15,158 feet in height, 
enters the region of perpetual snow. 
The valley of Mexico, or Tenochtitlan, which is 
of an oval form, is situated in the centre of the cor- 
dillera of Anahuac, and is 63 miles in length by 
