BOOK V. 



THE MEXICAN STATES AND TERRITORIES; 



THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS, CITIES, TOWNS, PRODUCTIONS, 

 MINES, GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS, ANTIQUITIES, ETC. 



CHAPTER I. 



DIVISION OP MEXICO INTO STATES EASTERN, WESTERN, INTERIOR. 



YUCATAN BOUNDARIES, DEPARTMENTS, POPULATION, DISTRICTS, 



TOWNS, PARISHES, PRODUCTIONS, PRINCIPAL TOWNS, ISLANDS, HAR- 

 BORS. CHIAPAS BOUNDARIES, PRODUCTS, DEPARTMENTS, TOWNS, 



RIVERS, POPULATION REMAINS IN YUCATAN AND CHIAPAS. DIS- 

 COVERIES OF STEPHENS, CATHERWOOD, NORMAN, ETC. — - PALENQUE 



UXMAL YUCATAN CALENDAR. YUCATAN, CHIAPAN, MECHOACAN. 



NICARAGUA AND MEXICAN MONTHS. YUCATESE AND CHIAPAN CY- 

 CLE. YUCATESE AND MEXICAN SOLAR YEAR DIFFERENCES. 



YUCATESE MONTHS. TABASCO BOUNDARIES, RIVERS, LAGUNE, 



INHABITANTS, PRODUCTIONS, TOWNS AND VILLAGES. 



In treating this branch of our subject we have followed the order 

 adopted by Miihlenpfordt in his "Republik Mejico," and acknow- 

 ledge the important assistance we have derived from the careful, 

 minute and laborious personal researches made by that industrious 

 German author relative to the geography of Mexico. Since the 

 publication of his volumes, in which he had been greatly aided by 

 the previous works of Humboldt, Ward, Burkhardt and other ex- 

 plorers during the present century, the Mexican government has 

 organized a Statistical Commission, whose investigations have been 

 published in a series of Bulletins, and to these we are indebted for 

 recent authentic information about some of the most interesting por- 

 tions of Mexico. The northern regions, meanwhile, have been 

 illustrated by the explorations of Fremont, Abert, Emory, Wislize- 

 nius, Cooke, Simpson, and other officers of the American Govern- 

 ment; but as most of the territory examined by them has become 

 the property of the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe, their 

 labors are not of importance in describing the Republic of Mexico 

 as at present bounded. In the last Book of this work, however, 

 which we have devoted to the consideration of California and New 

 Mexico, we shall recur to those brave and scientific explorers of a 

 remote region, so recently a wilderness, but which their labors, and 



