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MEXICO IN 1827.
BOOK I.
SECTION I.
BOUNDARIES.—GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE. CLIMATE.
The Republic of Mexico, which comprises the whole of the vast territory formerly subject to the Viceroyalty of New Spain, is bounded to the East and South-east by the Gulph of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea; to the West by the Pacific; to the South by Guatemala, which occupies a part of the Isthmus of Darien; and to the North by the United States.
The exact line which separates the provinces of Las Chiapas and Tabasco from the territory of Guatemala, has not yet been fixed, but is at present the subject of amicable discussion between the two governments. To the North, the frontier is defined, with sufficient exactness, by the treaty of Washing-
