The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.