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ed on a great number of official memoirs, 

 presents, in six divisions, considerations on 

 the extent and natural appearance of 

 Mexico, on the population, on the man- 

 ners of the inhabitants, their ancient civi- 

 lization, and the political division of their 

 territory. It embraces at the same time 

 the agriculture, the mineral riches, the ma- 

 nufactures, the commerce, the finances, 

 and the military defence of this vast coun- 



Arrowsmith, who has appropriated it to himself, by 

 publishing it on a larger scale, under the title of 

 New Map of Mexico, compiled from original Docu- 

 ments, by Arrowsmith. It is very easy to recognize 

 this map from the number of chalcographical errors 

 with which it abounds, from the explanation of the 

 signs which he has forgotten to translate from the 

 French into English, and from the word ocean, which 

 is engraved amidst the mountains, in a place where 

 the original states, that the elevated plain of Toluca 

 is 1400 toises above the level of the ocean. The conduct 

 of Mr. Arrowsmith is so much the more reprehen- 

 sible, as neither Messers. Dairy m pie, Rennel, D' Ar- 

 cy de la Rochette, nor any of those other excel- 

 lent geographers England boasts, have ever given 

 him the example, either in their maps, or the ana- 

 lyses which accompany them. The reclamations of a 

 traveller must appear just, when mere copies of his 

 labors are published under the names of other 

 persons. 



