CONTENTS.
BOOK IV.
CHAPTER 1. — 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 boundary — Present States and Territories — Rivers of Mexico — Rivers and Lakes of Mexico,Page 9
CHAPTER 2. — 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 — Agriculturists — Traditionary habits adhered to — Improvidence — Superstition — Drunkenness — Indian women — Servile condition — Local adhesiveness — Peonage — Whipping — Planter-life — Its solitude and results — Mülenpfordt's character of the Indians — Indian tribes and races in Mexico — Table of castes in Mexico,22
CHAPTER 3. — Population — Census — Tables of population — Relative division of races — Relative intellectual cultivation — Relative population in hot and cold districts,41
CHAPTER 4. — Agriculture — Dry and rainy seasons — Irrigation — Yield of corn lands — Colonial restrictions — Colonial dependence — Bad intercommunication — Arrieros — 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 5. — Estates in the valleys of Cuernavaca and Cuautla — Mexican haciendas — Sugar regions — Coffee — Its yield — Tobacco — Orizaba — Chiapas, etc. — Indigo — Cotton — Manufactures encouraged in Mexico — No new agricultural population — New manufacturing population — Production of cotton — Vainilla — Jalap — Cacao — Cochineal — Its production and quantity — Silk — Fruits — Agricultural prospects — Grazing, and not an agricultural country,62
CHAPTER 6. — 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 7. — 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 exports — 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
