Mexico: Its Geography, Its People, and Its Institutions: with a Map, Containing the Result of the Latest Explorations of Fremont, Wilkes, and OthersH. Long and brother, 1846 - 64 էջ |
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Mexico: Its Geography, Its People, and Its Institutions: with a Map ... Thomas Jefferson Farnham Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1846 |
Common terms and phrases
abundance Acapulco amount Anahuac annual army ascent capital Catorce CHAPTER Chihuahua churches city of Mexico climate coast commerce comprehends Congress contains cotton Cruz to Mexico cultivated descend distance districts dollars Durango elevation estimated exported extends feet fertile four gold Guadalajara Guanaxuato Gulf of Mexico harbour horses hundred immense Indian inhabitants isthmus isthmus of Tehuantepec lake latitude leagues Luis Potosi manufacture Mexican miles mines Monterey Montezuma mountains mouth mules New-York northern Oaxaca Pacific Panuco passes plain of Chihuahua population portion President produce province Puebla quantity Querétaro region Republic Rio del Norte Rio Santiago river road route Saltillo San Louis Potosi San Luis San Luis Potosi Santa Fe shaft Sierra Madre silver situated soil Sonora Spanish square stone streets surface table-land Tampico Tehuantepec Texas thence tobacco town tract trade traveller valley valley of Mexico veins Vera Cruz vessels whole Xalapa Zacatecas
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 40 - ... hours. It happened to be a sale day (Wednesday), and in the same court where the malacates were at work, we saw three or four hundred people collected; some exposing the ore to the best advantage, and others examining its quality. This mine is now worked by halves — the workmen receiving one-half of the profits, and the owners of the mine the other. The workmen were busily employed in arranging the pieces of ore in parallelograms, composed of small circular heaps of ore. They were very careful...
Էջ 40 - • some places where the ore proved very rich,' -Jt' ' has been taken from the sides and vaults, and the voids filled up with masonry, and beams worked in so as to form a firm support to the sides and roof. These galleries have been blasted out, and must have cost great labour, for the whole mountain is of porphyry to a great depth/ The exterior is covered with a crust of brescia, which extends not more than four or five feet from the surface. The ore is for the most part extracted by drilling and...
Էջ 11 - There is not a single navigable stream to be found in New Mexico. The famous Rio del Norte is so shallow, for the most part of the year, that Indian canoes can scarcely float in it.
Էջ 48 - ... entry, and depository of all the ancient archives of the neighboring states. The houses are built of raw bricks, two feet long, six inches deep, and one foot wide, made with straw and mud, and dried in the sun : and such is the durability that many houses more than two hundred years old are standing and look well ; they are only one story high, handsomely whitewashed inside, with dirt floors. Even the palace in which his excellency resides has no other than a dirt floor, but they are generally...
Էջ 63 - But the immense wealth which is thus collected in the churches, is not by any means all, or even the larger portion, of the wealth of the Mexican Church and clergy, They own very many of the finest houses in Mexico and other cities (the rents of which must be enormous), besides valuable real estates all over the Republic Almost every person leaves a bequest in his will for masses for his soul, which constitute an incumbnince upon the estate, and thus nearly all the estates of the small proprietors...
Էջ 40 - ... ores, which we had here a good opportunity of examining, are principally quartz, amethyst, and rock-crystal, hornstone here and there, and a small portion of calcareous spar of a dark brown and of pearl colour. The metals are, pyrites of iron, arsenic, yellow copper, galena, gray and yellow blende, virgin gold and silver, sulphate of silver, both brittle and ductile, and rosicler, a rich silver ore of a bright rosy colour, which we did not see. This ore Is so rare, that I could not meet with...
Էջ 40 - ... not funds to renew it. From these mines we went to a shaft called Guadeloupe, where we found two malacates in operation. These machines are used to free mines from water, and to draw up .the ore. A malacate is a drum of about ten feet in diameter, attached to a vertical spindle, a shaft of fifteen feet long, which is shod with steel, and turns in steel sockets. Poles project at right angles from the shaft, to which the horses are harnessed.
Էջ 7 - The channels by which these islands are separated are too shallow to admit even boats. The country adjacent to the shores, and from three to ten miles inland, is very low, but is defended from the sea by sand-hills rising from 50 to 200 feet high. The soil is sandy and destitute of vegetation, with the exception of a few stunted shrubs and gome hardy plants.
Էջ 15 - Of any other city it is considered a disgrace to say, that grass grows in the streets, but here it would be a compliment, for no vegetation* is to be observed even for miles around; and fish is the only article of provision not brought from a distance. The only water fit to drink, is what falls from the clouds, and is preserved in tanks; that from the castle and the convent of Franciscans being the best. Though the markets are tolerably well supplied by the Indians, living at the hotels is expensive...
Էջ 40 - These galleries have been blasted out, and must have cost great labour, for the whole mountain is of porphyry to a great depth. " The exterior is covered with a crust of brescia, which extends not more than four or five feet from the surface. The ore is for the most part extracted by drilling and blasting: sometimes, but very rarely, the wedge can be used. On our return, we plodded painfully up these stairs, which the cargadores (porters) ascend with ease, with a load of ten or fifteen arrobas on...