The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

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.

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

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

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