Mexico from the Material Stand-point: A Review of Its Mineral, Agricultural, Forest, and Marine Wealth, Its Manufactures, Commerce, Railways, Isthmian Routes, and Finances. With a Description of Its Highlands and AttractionsA. Brentano & Company, 1884 - 156 Seiten |
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Seite 126 - ... she acquires it, she will make the acquisition by the right of the strongest; but, in this instance, the strongest means the best. She will probably become what we are now, the head servant in the great household of the world, the employer of all employed; because her service will be the most and ablest. We have no more title against her, than Venice, or Genoa, or Holland has had against us.
Seite 134 - Tenochtitlan, as more commonly called by the natives; which, with its picturesque assemblage of water, woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them.
Seite 125 - This accession of territory strengthens forever the power of the United States ; and I have just given to England a maritime rival that will sooner or later humble her pride.
Seite 124 - In negotiating upon this important subject, this government has had in view one, and only one object. That object has been, and is, the construction or attainment of a passage from ocean to ocean, the shortest and the best for travelers and merchandise, and equally open to all the world.
Seite 135 - ... distance. Stretching far away at their feet were seen noble forests of oak, sycamore and cedar ; and, beyond, yellow fields of maize and the towering maguey, intermingled with orchards and blooming gardens : for flowers — in such demand for their religious festivals — were even more abundant in this populous valley than in other parts of Anahuac.
Seite 149 - Diaz del Castillo. Written by himself. Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. Translated from the original Spanish by John Ingram Lockhart.
Seite 54 - ... society? These ought to be the questions. Well, with respect to that, I am sure that everybody has become satisfied that, although California may have a very great sea-board, and a large city or two, yet that the agricultural products of the whole surface now are not, and never will be, equal to one half part of those of the State of Illinois ; no, nor yet a fourth, or perhaps a tenth part.
Seite 135 - In the centre of the great basin were beheld the lakes, occupying then a much larger portion of its surface than at present ; their borders thickly studded with towns and hamlets, and in the midst, like some Indian empress with her coronal of pearls, the fair city of Mexico, with her white towers and pyramidal temples, reposing, as it were, on the bosom of the waters, the far-famed
Seite 124 - It has sought to obtain no territorial acquisition, nor any advantages peculiar to itself; and it would see, with the greatest regret, that Mexico should oppose any obstacle to the accomplishment of an enterprise which promises so much convenience to the whole commercial world, and such eminent advantages to Mexico herself. Impressed with these sentiments and these convictions, the government will continue to exert all proper efforts to bring about the necessary arrangement with the republic of Mexico...
Seite 57 - There are few parts, either of the tierra caliente or of the table-land, in which maize is not cultivated with success. In the low, hot grounds upon the coast, and on the slope of the cordillera, its growth is more prolific than on the table-land, where its fecundity is such as will hardly be credited in Europe.