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

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

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society