THE KINGDOM OF GUATEMALA. 
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II. 
Square Miles 
Population. 
Guatemala . 
. 40,776 
1,500,000 
Salvador 
. . . , . 7,335 
554,000 
Honduras . 
. 39,600 
300,000 
Nicaragua . 
. 58,170 
300,000 
Costa Rica 
. 26,040 
200,000 
171,921 
2,854,000 
III. 
Guatemala . 
. 50,600 
1,200,000 
Salvador 
. 9,600 
600,000 
Honduras . 
. 40,000 
400,000 
Nicaragua . 
. 40,000 
(1882) 275,816 
Costa Rica 
.21,000 
200,000 
161,200 
2,675,816 
Without surveys and without a proper census of the 
Indian tribes no scientific description of the country can 
be given. Humboldt’s theory of an Andean cordillera 
has been disputed, and his mountain-chain has proved 
to be a confusing (but not confused) series of mountain- 
ridges. Yet it well may prove that the great naturalist 
was right; and so far as we now know from maps and 
personal observation, the vast earth-wrinkle which ex¬ 
tends along the western border of our continent is a 
mountain-range of definite direction (about E. 20 S. to 
W. 20° N.) in Central America, and there occupying 
nearly the whole width of the continent. If we can 
picture to ourselves the formation in those remote ages, 
that it is the geologist’s task to rehabilitate in thought, 
of a vast ridge, not sharp like the typical mountain 
range, but of broad dimensions like the swell of some 
vast ocean, we shall have the material then forming 
