# A Study of Mexico/Index

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* Academy of Fine Arts, Mexican, 103.
* Acapulco, road to, 125.
* National School of, 103.
* Agricultural machinery in Mexico, 127.
* productions of Mexico and the United States compared, 128.
* Agriculture, drawbacks to, 115.
* Mexican, prospects of, 132.
* Aguas Calientes, hot baths of, 25.
* Air, dryness of, in Mexico, 200.
* America, Central, unhealthiness of, 226.
* American invasion of Mexico, 70.
* invasion of Mexico without justification, 70.
* investments in Mexico, 213.
* Americans, dislike of, in Mexico, 217.
* Animals, domestic, unknown to the Aztecs, 54.
* Architecture, Mexican, 36.
* Argentine Republic, revenues of, 182.
* Arista, General, memorial of, 70.
* Army, Mexican; number and efficiency, 104.
* Art in Mexico, 5.
* Auto-da-fe, last in Mexico, 57.
* Aztec architecture, 57.
* civilization, low grade of, 51.
* festivals still celebrated, 88.
* industries, 56.
* territory, limitations of, 54.
* Aztecs, cannibalism among, 55.
* memorials of, 51.
* Banks in Mexico, 198.
* Baptist missions in Mexico, 88, 90
* Barca, Madame Calderon de la, observations of, 24.
* Barrancas of Mexico, 27.
* Border population, 208.
* British capital in Mexico, 213.
* Budget, Federal, of Mexico, 188
* Buildings, wooden, absence of, in Mexico, 36.
* Business methods of the Mexicans, 237.
* Calendar stone, 59.
* California, Lower, taxes in, 180.
* Cannibalism among the Aztecs, 55.
* Capital, Mexican, health of, 201.
* Catholic Church of Mexico, future attitude of, 219.
* hold upon the people, 82.
* responsibility for the condition of Mexico, 114. ​
* "Cattle-range" business, original in Mexico, 123.
* Census of Mexico, 48.
* Central America, transit routes of, 226.
* unhealthiness of, 226.
* Chapultepec, battle of, 71.
* monument at, 11.
* Charney, M. de, on Aztec civilization, 55.
* Chimneys, absence of, 35.
* Chinese views respecting trade, 249.
* Cholula, Pyramid of, 60.
* Church, Mexican, confiscated wealth of, 87.
* connection with French invasion, 78.
* nationalization of, 81.
* Coal in Mexico, 134.
* price of, 135.
* Coasts of Mexico, unhealthiness of, 194.
* Coffee product of Mexico, 129.
* Coinage of Mexico, 159, 196.
* Commerce, obstacles to, in Mexico, 195.
* world's, demands of, 225.
* Commercial relations of Mexico, 189.
* Commodities, extent to which they can bear transportation, 125.
* Congress of Mexico, 107.
* Constitution of Mexico, 106
* Convents, suppression of, 81.
* Corn product of Mexico, 128.
* Cortes, military exploits in Mexico, 61.
* military forces, 61.
* picture of, 65.
* Cotton, Mexican, product and quality of, 131.
* limited production of, in Mexico, 137.
* factories in Mexico, 135-137.
* Cow-boy, original home of the, 123.
* Credit, mercantile, in Mexico, 236.
* Death, lottery of, 206.
* Death-rate in Vera Cruz, 205.
* Debt, national, of Mexico, 233.
* obligations of Mexico, 27, 222, 223.
* public, of Mexico, 222.
* Despotism of Government, 105.
* Diaz, Porfirio, President, 110.
* Drainage of the city of Mexico, 202.
* Education in Mexico, 101.
* suppression of, under Spanish rule, 63.
* Elections, popular, none in Mexico, 108.
* Embassadors, Hall of, 68.
* English trade with Mexico, 193.
* Episcopal missions in Mexico, 88.
* Esperanza, railroad-station of, 44.
* Estates, large Mexican, 33.
* Exports, Mexican, taxation of, 172.
* Exports and imports of Mexico, 190.
* Factories in Mexico, 135.
* Fashions in Mexico, 146.
* Females, limitation of employments for, 139.
* "Financier," Mexican, newspaper, 112.
* Fires, rarity of, in Mexico, 36.
* Fiscal policy of Mexico, 154. ​
* Food, imported, high prices of, 146.
* Foreigners, discrimination against land-owning, 86.
* Forests in Mexico, 23.
* Foster, Minister John W., report of, 17.
* Foster, Minister John W., rejoinder to, by the Mexican Government, 19.
* Free trade and protection in Mexico, 154.
* French trade with Mexico, 193.
* Fuel, high cost of, 135.
* Gold product of Mexico, 150.
* Government, good, in Mexico, not readily attainable, 214.
* Government of Mexico, 105.
* Guaymas, American trade with, 242.
* Guerrero, city of, taxes in, 179.
* Haciendas, construction of, 31.
* Hams, analysis of duties on imports of, 168.
* Handicrafts of Mexico, 135.
* Hats, features of, in the Mexican dress, 26.
* "Hercules" cotton-mill, 150.
* Hidalgo, the Mexican Washington, 67.
* Highways in Mexico, 195.
* Holy Family, flight of, repetition in Mexico, 24.
* Horses, acclimatization of, in Mexico, 199.
* Hospital, American, in Mexico, 204.
* Hospitals, lack of suitable, 203.
* Houses in Mexico, 22.
* of the people, 38.
* Humboldt, special privileges granted to, 15.
* Idol, great, of the Aztecs, 58.
* Immigration to Mexico, 118.
* Indian characteristics, 141.
* races, their social position in Mexico, 99.
* Indians, Mexican, attachment to localities, 100.
* Indians, Mexican, communistic life of, 99.
* Indians, Mexican, improvidence of, 98.
* Indians, Mexican, ingenuity of, 34.
* never Christianized, 85.
* Indians of Mexico, 93.
* Industries, Mexican, taxes on, 177, 178.
* Interoceanic transits, 225.
* Inquisition in Mexico, 63.
* Iron, absence of, in Mexican industry, 34.
* Iron not known to the Aztecs, 52, 53.
* Irrigation, necessity of, in Mexico, 34
* Irrigation, titles and rights to, 116.
* Iturbide, Emperor, portrait of, 68.
* Hotel, 36.
* Ixtle, fiber, production of, 232.
* Jamaica, taxation in, 185.
* Juarez, Benito, character and services, 77.
* Kerosene-lamp, story of a, 232. ​
* Labor, scarcity of, in Mexico, 144.
* Lamp, kerosene, story of a, 232.
* Land, discrimination against American ownership of, 119.
* Land speculations on the border, 209.
* Land-owners of Mexico, 186.
* Land-titles of Mexico, 116.
* Lands, public, of Mexico, prices of, 209.
* Language of Mexico, 94.
* Spanish, an obstacle to commerce, 94.
* Laws, complicated system in Mexico, 175.
* Leather industry of Mexico, 138.
* "Leperos" of Mexico, 93.
* Lerdo de Tejada, former President of Mexico, 10.
* Life, material and spiritual poverty of, 95.
* Living, cost of, in Mexico, 183.
* "Locomotive," effect of first appearance, 230.
* Machinery, labor-saving, little used in Mexico, 133.
* Manufactures of Mexico, 133.
* restriction of, under Spanish rule, 64.
* Maximilian, Emperor, character and fate, 78, 79.
* court ceremonials of, 79.
* Mayas, civilization of, 48.
* Mechanics, obstacles to the immigration of, 170.
* Merchants, American, peculiarities of, 239.
* German, characteristics of, 241.
* German, in Mexico, 240.
* "Mestizos," of Mexico, 93.
* Metals, precious, abnormal export of, 191.
* product of Mexico, 159.
* Methodist missions in Mexico, 88, 90.
* Mexican Military School, National, 104.
* Mexico, area of, 49.
* artificial conditions to which it has been subject, 114.
* border States of, 47.
* chronic revolutions of, 69.
* Constitution of, 106.
* dryness of climate, 48.
* essential attractions of, 158.
* French invasion of, 75.
* geographical configuration of, 46.
* Government, since 1821, 69.
* history of, 50.
* imports and exports of, 190.
* Military School, 104.
* Northern, land value in, 122.
* plateau of, 40.
* popular ignorance concerning, 14, 39.
* population of, 48.
* poverty of the country, 39.
* recent progress of, 220.
* sanitary condition of, 203.
* small annual production of, 182.
* States of, 49.
* stone age of, 52.
* unexplored portions of, 14.
* what she buys and sells, 247.
* Middle classes, absence of, in Mexico, 186.
* Mills, cotton, in Mexico, description of, 153.
* Miners, wages of, in Mexico, 141. ​
* Mines and mining in Mexico, 158.
* Mines, old Spanish, fabulous reports of, 161.
* Mining industry of Mexico, obstacles to, 161.
* property, laws regulating, 120.
* properties, owned by Americans, 161.
* Missionary work in Mexico, 88, 90, 252.
* Money, paper, introduction of, in Mexico, 199.
* Monometallism in Mexico, 196.
* Monroe doctrine, 73.
* application of, to Mexico, 210.
* practical rejection of, 252.
* Mounds, Western, counterparts of, in Mexico, 60.
* Museum, "National," of Mexico, 51.
* National feeling in Mexico, strength of, 107.
* National portrait-gallery of Mexico, 65.
* Newspapers in Mexico, 112.
* Ores of silver, restriction on exportation, 162.
* Orizaba, Mount, 45.
* Pauper-labor argument, 140, 147.
* Picturesque scenery, 22.
* "Peonage" system, 27.
* People of Mexico, improvidence of, 31.
* divisions of, 92.
* indifference to progress, 187.
* occupations of, 115.
* Petroleum, market for, in Mexico, 244.
* Plateau, Mexican, elevation of, 40.
* dryness of, 47.
* Plows, Mexican, 126.
* one handle, 126.
* Policy, a desirable American, 221.
* Popocatapetl, Mount, 41.
* Popular assemblages, unknown in Mexico, 105.
* Population of Mexico, 48.
* "Portango" system of taxation, 180.
* Portraits, national, 65.
* Potatoes, scarcity of, in Mexico, 132.
* Prescott, romance of his narrative, 50.
* President of Mexico, term of office, 103.
* Press, liberty of, in Mexico, 112, 113.
* Prices in Mexico, 146.
* Pronunciamentos, influence of railroads on, 229.
* Property, small accumulation of, in Mexico, 182.
* Protection and free trade in Mexico, 155.
* in the middle ages, 174.
* Protective features of the Spanish colonial policy, 63.
* Protestant churches of the United States, neglect of Mexico by, 252, 253.
* missions in Mexico, 88, 90.
* neglect of opportunities, 252.
* Public opinion in Mexico, what constitutes, 108.
* Querétaro, cotton-manufacture at, 150. ​
* Railroad, "Mexican Central," elevation of, 40.
* facilities of travel by, 21.
* "National," 233.
* system of Mexico, 233.
* "Vera Cruz and City of Mexico," 40-42.
* cost of, 43.
* scenery on, 42.
* Railroads and commerce, 238.
* influence of, on Government, 229.
* Rainy season in Mexico, 120.
* Rancheros, good faith of, 237, 238.
* Real-estate investments in Mexico, 117.
* Receipts and expenditures of Mexico, 188.
* Reciprocity treaty, Mexican, 246, 254
* Religious toleration in Mexico, 89, 90, 218.
* Revenue, national, principal sources of, 189.
* Revolutionary elements in Mexico, 209.
* Revolutions, domestic, influence of railroads on, 229.
* Rivers, navigable, absence of, in Mexico, 48.
* Roads, absence of, in Mexico, 14, 15.
* Routes, interoceanic, 226.
* Saddles, Mexican, 138.
* Sales, taxes on, 176.
* Sanitary condition of Mexico, 203.
* Santa Fé, wages and labor at, 149.
* Schools, national, 102.
* Seaports of Mexico, poor, 195.
* Senate of Mexico, 107.
* Sewage of the city of Mexico, 200.
* Shoes and sandals, 26.
* Silver coinage, inconveniences of, 197.
* depreciation, effect of, in Mexico, 192.
* Silver monometallism in Mexico, 196.
* Silver product of Mexico, 159.
* Slavery, practical existence of, in Mexico, 28, 29.
* Smuggling in Mexico, 156, 157.
* present losses by, 157.
* Social forces in Mexico, 105.
* Society, best, of Mexico, what constitutes, 215.
* Spain, laws of old, 174.
* Spanish colonial policy, 63.
* Spanish rule in Mexico, 62.
* Stamp-taxes of Mexico, 176.
* Statesmen of Mexico, high character of. 111.
* Stone age in Mexico, 52.
* Stove, cost of importing a, into Mexico, 166.
* Stoves, absence of, in Mexico, 35.
* Strangers, climatic influences on, 199.
* Sugar, prices of, in Mexico, 130, 245.
* product of Mexico, 129.
* prospective increase of, 130.
* Tariff, United States, restriction on imports of ores, 162.
* Taxation, curious experiences of, 163, 165, 185.
* Taxation in Mexico, 163.
* in Mexico, difficulty of reforming, 181. ​
* Taxation, illustration of effects on trade, 172.
* Taxation, infinitesimal system of Mexico, 177.
* Taxes, stamp, 176.
* Taylor, Bayard, experiences of, 16.
* Teotihuacan, Pyramids of, 60.
* Tezcoco, Lake, 200
* Tierras Calientes, climate of, 123.
* Tobacco, Mexican, quality of, 245.
* Toltecs, civilization, 48.
* Tortillas, preparation of, 96.
* Tourists, in Mexico, health experiences of, 203.
* Trade, conditions of, 250.
* indirect of Mexico, 193.
* Mexican, with the United States, 25.
* Transit routes, interoceanic, 226.
* Transportation of commodities, 125.
* Travel, difficulties of, in Mexico, 17, 20, 21.
* Treaty, Mexico-American, 247, 250.
* Treaty, Mexico-American, rejection of, 247.
* Tula, ruins at, 48.
* United States, atonement due from, to Mexico, 73.
* United States, consular representation in Mexico, 8.
* United States, political relations with Mexico, 207.
* United States, trade with Mexico, 194.
* Vera Cruz, mortality of, 205.
* Vernon, Admiral, expedition to Darien, 226.
* Viceroys, Spanish, portraits of, 65.
* Wages in Mexico, 28, 29, 140, 141.
* lowest in North America, 149.
* Wagons, Mexican, 126.
* Water, scarcity of, in Mexico, 120, 121.
* Wheat product of Mexico, 128.
* Wine production of Mexico, 64.
* Women, Mexican, restrictions on the labor of, 139.
* Yucatan, agriculture in, 124.
* laborers of, 144.
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