Mexico: A Geographical Sketch, with Special Reference to Economic Conditions and Prospects of Future Development ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900 - 385 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 16 - Long live religion ! Long live our Most Holy Mother of Guadalupe ! Long live America, and death to bad government!
الصفحة 184 - Zacatecas is the great silver-producing State. It is estimated that in the last three centuries its many mines, which were first worked by the Spaniards in 1540, but which had previously been worked in a rude way by the Indians, have yielded over a thousand million of dollars. Guerrero has always been considered as one of the richest mineral sections of America. Prospectors heretofore have been compelled to abandon rich discoveries on account of a lack of transportation facilities and scarcity of...
الصفحة 14 - Mexican historians generally agree, founding their theories on the interpretations of hieroglyphics and upon the ancient ruins, that the country was invaded by seven families successively immigrating from the north, all speaking the same language, the Nahuatl or Mexican ; but history does not reveal the starting point of these races nor disclose the mystery of the multiplicity of languages of so diverse a character spoken by the many tribes that followed them, nor the causes that impelled them to...
الصفحة 15 - Huitzilopochtli was born of a virgin belonging to the noble family of Citli (free and ancestral); that his cradle was the heart of a maguey plant (metl), and hence the name of Mecitli, afterwards changed into Mexith, and finally into Mexico.
الصفحة 46 - The legislative power in the large majority of the States is vested in a single representative body called a congress, the members of which are called deputies, and are in most States elected indirectly by the people, serving two years.
الصفحة 5 - Humboldt and other geologists considered the Cordilleras of Mexico as a portion of the Andes of South America, which originate in Patagonia, extending over the whole of that continent ; but researches were made specially by a corps of engineers, who surveyed Mexico during the French Intervention...
الصفحة 182 - In the district and near the city of Chihuahua is situated the celebrated Santa Eulalia mine, one of the oldest in the country^ the products of which have left a monument in the very handsome parish church of San Francisco, erected in the city between the years 1717 and 1789 with the proceeds of a tax of one real (\i% cents) on each half pound of silver got from the mine.
الصفحة 44 - ARTICLE 56. In order to be eligible as a deputy it is required to be a Mexican citizen in the full exercise of his rights ; to have completed 25 years of age on the day of the opening of the session ; to be a resident of the State or Territory which makes the election, and not to be an ecclesiastic.
الصفحة 8 - But the highest ranges are formed mainly of plutonic and volcanic rocks, such as granites, syenites, diorites, mineral-bearing trachytes, basalts, porphyries, obsidian, pearlstone, sulphur, pumice, lavas, tufa and other recent volcanic discharges. Obsidian (itzli) was the chief material formerly used by the natives in the manufacture of their cutting implements, as shown by the quarries of the Cerro de las Navajas (Knife Cliff) near Zimapan.
الصفحة 141 - Indians are the poorest people in the world, for they have neither wool, hemp, nor flax; nor have they beasts of burden. Wherefore, as bishop of Mexico, I feel bound to beg the gentlemen of the council to make an earnest effort looking to their enjoyment of these benefits. " He who would reap must first sow ;" but if, on the contrary, the tilling of the soil is neglected to engage solely in the working of mines the ruin of the country is certain.