Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain ...I. Riley, 1811 |
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... cultivation , and military defence of the country . State of the coasts . Vol . i . p . 35 BOOK II . General population of New Spain . Division of the inhabitants into casts . CHAPTER IV . General enumeration in 1793. Progress of the ...
... cultivation , and military defence of the country . State of the coasts . Vol . i . p . 35 BOOK II . General population of New Spain . Division of the inhabitants into casts . CHAPTER IV . General enumeration in 1793. Progress of the ...
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... territory . Progress of the cultivation of the soil . Influence of the mines on cultiva- tion . Plants which contribute to the nourishment of man . Vol . ii . GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION . IN publishing maps of New Spain , zii CONTENTS .
... territory . Progress of the cultivation of the soil . Influence of the mines on cultiva- tion . Plants which contribute to the nourishment of man . Vol . ii . GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION . IN publishing maps of New Spain , zii CONTENTS .
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... In this region , traversed by me from the month of March , 1803 , to the month of February , * The word Real indicates a place where mines are worked . 1804 , a region the most cultivated and best inhabited iv GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
... In this region , traversed by me from the month of March , 1803 , to the month of February , * The word Real indicates a place where mines are worked . 1804 , a region the most cultivated and best inhabited iv GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION .
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Alexander von Humboldt. 1804 , a region the most cultivated and best inhabited of the kingdom , there are to be found a sufficient number of points of which the position is astronomi- cally determined . It is to be wished that a ...
Alexander von Humboldt. 1804 , a region the most cultivated and best inhabited of the kingdom , there are to be found a sufficient number of points of which the position is astronomi- cally determined . It is to be wished that a ...
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... cultivation of the human species . We must not , however , confound this second abode of the Azteques from which they passed from Tarahumara to Colhuacan , * with the Casas grandes , or the third abode of the Azteques , situated to the ...
... cultivation of the human species . We must not , however , confound this second abode of the Azteques from which they passed from Tarahumara to Colhuacan , * with the Casas grandes , or the third abode of the Azteques , situated to the ...
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Էջ 292 - They were bounded by basaltic mountains, of which the structure seems to indicate, that all this country at a very remote period had been already several times convulsed by volcanoes. These fields, watered by artificial means, belonged to the plantation (hacienda) of San Pedro de Jorullo, one of the greatest and richest of the country. In the month of June, 1759, a subterraneous noise was heard.
Էջ 107 - Amazons, and have had occasion to see a great number of tribes assembled under the monastical hierarchy in the missions, must have observed that the American race contains nations whose features differ as essentially from one another, as the numerous varieties of the race of Caucasus, the Circassians, Moors, and Persians differ from one another.
Էջ 66 - In the space of a day the inhabitants descend from the regions of eternal snow to the plains in the vicinity of the sea, -where the most suffocating heat prevails. The admirable order with which different tribes of vegetables rise above one another by strata, as it were, is no where more perceptible than in ascending from the port of Vera Cru* to the table-land of Perote.
Էջ 183 - When a common man disputes with one of the titled lords of the country, he is frequently heard to say, " Do you think me not so white as yourself?
Էջ 181 - is in colour almost a pure white, and his skin is of a particular transparency. The small beard, and small hands and feet, and a certain obliquity of the eyes, are more frequent indications of the mixture of Indian blood, than the nature of the hair.
Էջ xl - Argand's lamps, contain every evening some hundreds of young people, of whom some draw from relievo or living models, while others copy drawings of furniture, chandeliers, or other ornaments in bronze. In this assemblage (and this is very remarkable in the midst of a country where the prejudices of the nobility against the...
Էջ 182 - The casts of Indian or African blood preserve the odour peculiar to the cutaneous transpiration of those two primitive races. The Peruvian Indians, who in the middle of the night distinguish the different races by their quick sense of smell, have formed three words to express the odour of the European, the Indian American, and the negro: they call the first pezuna, the second posco *, and the third grqjo.
Էջ xl - Rome, surpasses in beauty and purity of style everything which remains in this way in Europe. Instruction is communicated gratis at the Academy of Fine Arts. It is not confined alone to the drawing of landscapes and figures; they have had the good sense to employ other means for exciting the national industry. The academy labors successfully to introduce among the artisans a taste for elegance and beautiful forms.
Էջ 66 - ... the Indian to labour, and excites his industry. At the height of San Miguel, pines begin to mingle with the oaks which are found by the traveller as high as the elevated plains of Perote, where he beholds the delightful aspect of fields sown with wheat.
Էջ 293 - Eruptions of mud, and especially of strata of clay enveloping balls of decomposed basaltes in concentrical layers, appear to indicate that subterraneous water had no small share in producing this extraordinary revolution. Thousands of small cones, from 6 to 10 feet in height, called by the natives ovens (hornitos), issued forth from the Malpays.