CHAPTER 8. — 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 9. — Table of cotton factories in Mexico — Consumption — Production — Increase of factories — Day and night work — Deficit of material — Water and steam power — Mexican manufactures generally,112
CHAPTER 10.. — The military in Mexico before and after the revolution — Confirmation 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 11. — 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 — Constitutional protection of Catholicism — Duty of the church — Bulls — Paper money,130
CHAPTER 12. — Various changes of the Mexican constitution — Present organization of the national and state governments — Constitution of 1847 — Legislative and judiciary — National and state — Judiciary — Administration of justice — Civil and criminal process — Mal-administration of justice — Prisons — Crime — Accordada — Condition of prisons — Statistics of crime in the capital — Garrotte — Mexican opinions,144
CHAPTER 13. — What Mexico has done — Review of her conduct and character — Mexican opinions — Classes — Indians — Mestizos — Whites — Army — Church — Divisions of whites — want of Homogeneousness — Want of nationality and of a people — Remedies — Emigration — Religious liberty — political order — Labor,155
BOOK V.
CHAPTER 1. — Division of Mexico into States — Eastern, western, interior — Yucatan — 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 Stephens, Catherwood, Norman, etc. — Palenque — Uxmal — Yucatan calendar — Yucatan, Chiapan, Mechoacan, Nicaragua and Mexican months — Yucatese and Chiapan cycle — Yucatese and Mexican solar year — Differences — Yucatese months — Tabasco — Boundaries, rivers, lagune, inhabitants, productions, towns and villages,165
CHAPTER 2. — Boundaries of Vera Cruz — Rivers, lagunes, mineral springs, population, political divisions, productions, cattle, cities, towns — Vera Cruz — Its diseases — Meteorological observations at — Water fallen at Vera Cruz — Orizaba — Ascent of the mountain — Magnificent views — Difficulties — The crater extinct — Elevation of the mountain — Descent — Antiquities in the state of Vera Cruz — Ruins at Panuco, Chacuaco, San Nicolas, La Trinidad — Small figures — Papantla — Description of the pyramid — Ruins at Mapilca — Pyramid and temple at Tusapan — 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.183
