A condensed and connected general View of the Manners, Customs,
Religion, Commerce, Soil, and Agriculture-Animal, Vegetable, and
Mineral Productions-A concise Political and Statistical Review of the
Changes effected in that Country, with its present Form of Govern-
ment, &c. &c.—Also, Observations, Speculative and Practical, as to
the best Means of Working the MEXICAN MINES, by a Combination
of British Talent, Capital, and Machinery.

BY NICHOLAS MILL, Esq.

Mixtaque cum veris passim comafenta vagantur,
"Millia rumorem: Confusaque verba voluant.”

OVID. METAM. lib. XII.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, JONES, AND CO.

PATERNOSTER-ROW;

AND MAY BE HAD OF ALL BOOKSELLERS.

PRINTED BY W. LEWIS, 21, FINCH-LANE, CORNHILL.

DEDICATION.

ΤΟ

DAVID BARCLAY, ESQ.

CHAIRMAN OF THE ANGLO-MEXICAN MINING ASSOCIATION.

SIR,

THE intense interest which has been excited in the public mind towards that beautiful and fertile, but hitherto neglected, portion of the globe, Mexico, demands that some authentic history, in a convenient form, should be laid before the public; calculated to give it a just and faithful insight into the nature of the country, its inhabitants, government, and resources.

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