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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VIII. — Disorder of Mexican finances — Enormous usury — Character of 

 financial operations — Expenses of administrations — Analysis of Mexican debt- 

 Comparison of income and outlay — Deficit, 107 



CHAPTER IX. — Table of cotton factories in Mexico — Consumption — Produc- 

 tion — Increase of factories — Day and night work — Deficit of material — Water and 

 steam power — Mexican manufactures generally, 112 



CHAPTER X. — The military in Mexico before and after the revolution — Confirma- 

 tion of army — Its political use — Character of Mexican soldiers — Recruiting — 

 Tactics — Officers — Dramatic character of army — Recriminations — Condition of the 

 army at the peace — Army on the northern frontier — Military colonies — Character 

 of the tribes — Fortresses — Perote — Acapulco — San Juan de Ulua — Reorganization 

 of the army — Tabular view of men and Materiel — Navy — Extent of coast on both 

 seas — Naval establishment — Vessels and officers — Expenses of war and navy, 116 



CHAPTER XI. — Relations between the Mexican church and the Pope — Clergy — 

 Monks— Nuns — Monasteries — Convents — Wealth of the church — Ratio of clergy 

 and people — High and low clergy — their history — vices — Monks — Rural clergy — 

 Their character — Conduct of clergy, public and private — Missions in California — 

 Mode of conversion — Monks in Mexico — Zavala's strictures — Pazo's strictures on 

 South American clergy — Church in the United States and in Mexico — Constitu- 

 tional protection of Catholicism — Duty of the church — Bulls — Paper money, 130 



CHAPTER XII. — Various changes of the Mexican constitution — Present organiza- 

 tion of the national and state governments — Constitution of 1847 — Legislative and 

 judiciary — National and state — Judiciary — Administration of justice — Civil and 

 criminal process — Maladministration of justice — Prisons — Crime — Accordada — > 

 Condition of prisons — Statistics of crime in the capital — Garrotte — Mexican 

 opinions, ............. 144 



CHAPTER XIII. — What Mexico has done — Review of her conduct and character 

 — Mexican opinions — Classes — Indians — Mestizos — Whites — Army — Church — 

 Divisions of whites — want of Homogeneo*usness — Want of nationality and of a 

 people — Remedies — Emigration — Religious liberty — political order — Labor, 155 



BOOK V. 



CHAPTER I. — Division of Mexico into States — Eastern, western, interior — Yuca- 

 tan — Boundaries, departments, population, districts, towns, parishes, productions, 

 principal towns, islands, harbors — Chiapas — Boundaries, products, departments, 

 towns, rivers, population — Remains in Yucatan and Chiapas — Discoveries of Ste- 

 phens, Catherwood, Norman, etc. — Palenque — Uxmal — Yucatan calendar — Yuca- 

 tan, Chiapan, Mechoacan, Nicaragua and Mexican months — Yucatese and Chia- 

 pan cycle — Yucatese and Mexican solar year — Differences — Yucatese months — 

 Tabasco — Boundaries, rivers, lagune, inhabitants, productions, towns and villages, 



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CHAPTER II. — Boundaries of Vera Cruz — Rivers, lagunes, mineral springs, pop- 

 ulation, political divisions, productions, cattle, cities, towns — Vera Cruz — Its dis- 

 eases — Meteorological observations at — Water fallen at Vera Cruz — Orizaba — As- 

 cent of the mountain — Magnificent views — Difficulties — The crater extinct — 

 Elevation of the mountain — Descent — Antiquities in the state of Vera Cruz — 

 Ruins at Panucp, Chacuaco, San Nicolas, La Trinidad — Small figures — Papantla 

 — Description of the pyramid — Ruins at Mapilca — Pyramid and temple at Tusa- 

 pan — Isle of Sacrificios — Misantla — Remains near Puente Nacional — Tamaulipas — 

 Boundaries, rivers, lagunes, climate, population, productions, towns — Antiquities 

 of Tamaulipas — Topila — Rancho de las piedras — Sculpture — Remains, etc., etc. 



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