CONTENTS. 



BOOK IV. 



CHAPTER I. — Absence of accuracy — Humboldt — Superficial extent of Mexican 

 Territory — Physical structure of Mexico — Volcanic mountains — Climates— Tierras 

 Templadas, Calientes, Frias — Political divisions and boundaries of Mexico — Old 

 Spanish divisions — Provinces — Intendencies — States — Departments — North boun- 

 dary — Present States and Territories — Rivers of Mexico — Rivers and Lakes of 

 Mexico, Page 9 



CHAPTER II. — Division of population — Whites — Indians — Africans — Leperos — 

 Rancheros — Characteristics, Indifference, Procrastination — Females— Better Classes 

 — Their social habits — Entertainments — Leperos — Their habits — Evangelistas — 

 Thieving — The Ranchero — His character and habits — The Indian race — Agricul- 

 turists — Traditionary habits adhered to — Improvidence — Superstition — Drunken- 

 ness — Indian women — Servile condition — Local adhesiveness — Peonage — Whip- 

 ping — Planter-life — Its solitude and results— Mulenpfordt's character of the In- 

 dians — Indian tribes and races in Mexico — Table of castes in Mexico, . . 22 



CHAPTER III. — Population — Census — Tables of population — Relative division of 

 races — Relative intellectual cultivation — Relative population in hot and cold 

 districts, . . . . . . . 41 



CHAPTER IV. — Agriculture — Dry and rainy seasons — Irrigation — Yield of corn 

 lands — Colonial restrictions — Colonial dependence — Bad intercommunication — Ar- 

 rieros — Corn lands — Different kinds of corn in Mexico— Mode of cultivation — 

 Production — various uses of corn — Banana — Mainoc — Rice — The olive — Vine — 

 Chile pepper — tomato — Frijol — Maguey — Maguey estates — Making Pulque — 

 Aloes — Cacti, 48 



CHAPTER V. — Estates in the valleys of Cuernavaca and Cuautla — Mexican haci- 

 endas — Sugar regions — Coffee — Its yield — Tobacco — Orizaba — Chiapas, etc. — In- 

 digo — Cotton — Manufactures encouraged in Mexico — No new agricultural popula- 

 tion — New manufacturing population — Production of cotton — Vainilla — Jalap — 

 Cacao — Cochineal — Its production and quantity — Silk — Fruits — Agricultural pros- 

 pects — Grazing, and not an agricultural country, G2 



CHAPTER VI. — Reflections on emigration — Advantages of America — Land and 

 labor — Mines wrought by Aztecs — Mining districts and extent in Mexico — Errors 

 as to early supply of metals from America — True period of abundance — Mines 

 not exhausted — Condition — Families enriched — Effect of mining on Agriculture — 

 Relative product of silver for ten years — Table of product — Yield of the mines 

 since the Conquest— Coinage in 1844— Total coinage 1535 to 1850, . . 76 



CHAPTER VII.— Income of New Spain 1809— Expenses of New Spain 1809 — 

 Mineral productions — Military force — Agriculture — Manufactures — Commerce — 

 Exports — Imports — Present commerce — Imports — Exports — Nineteen years trade 

 between the United States and Mexico — Character of imports — Character of ex- 

 ports — Silver exported — Fairs in Mexico — The future prospects and position of 

 Mexico— Not a commercial country — Railway from Vera Cruz to the city of 

 Mexico, .93 



