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

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

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

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.

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 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.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.