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ON THIE

KINGDOM OF NEw SPAIN.

CoNTAINING

Researches relative to the Geography of Mexico,
The Extent of its Surface and its political Division into Intendancies,
The physical Aspect of the Country,
The Population, the State of Agriculture and Manufacturing
and Commercial Industry;
The Canals projected between the South Sea and Atlantic Ocean,
The Crown Revenues,
The Quantity of the precious Metals which have flowed from Mexico
into Europe and Asia, since the Discovery of the
New Continent,
And the Military Defence of New Spain.

By ALEXANDER DE HUMBOLDT.

WITH

PHYSICAL SECTIONS AND MAPS,

FOUNDED ON ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS, AND TRIGONOMETRICAL
AND BAROMETRICAL MEASUREMENTS,

TRAN SLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH

BY JOHN BLACK.

VOL. IV.

L O N DO N :
PRINTED Fort
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
TATERNOSTER-row.

BOOK V.

coNTINUATION OF CHAPTER XII.

The roads of Mexico are either carried along the central table land itself, from Oaxaca to Santa Fe, or they lead from the table land towards the coasts. The former are for carrying on a communication between the towns on the ridge of the mountains, in the coldest and most populous region of the kingdom; and the latter are destined for foreign commerce, and the relations which subsist between the interior and the ports of Vera Cruz and Acapulco; besides facilitating an exchange between the productions of the mountains and the burning plains of the coast. The roads of the table land running from the S.S.E. to the N. N.W., which from the total configuration of the country, we might call longitudinal, are very easily kept up. We shall not repeat in this place what we have already stated * in the preceding chapter, relative to the extent and continuity of the high plains of Anahuac, where we find neither crevice nor

* Introduction and chapters iii. and viii.

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