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The 5 at t these free consti gles tha of republics does not indicate avery mepent \ | the Mexicans from ancient date, were showing le, at least, in good degree. | civilized weet Pe 7 it possible to doubt that a part He adds 5 ad arrived at a certain dehe Mexican_nation had of the | snlivation. when we at reflect on the care withraed ree of cultivation e a y hical books were composed, and j Cc . > uF 3 ; was he politician, wise a like Here. re, aC civilization. ‘no that \. ¥7, dj “af ; Sg > ergo ¥ 3 , of a country, of . s Ps ays: i ae re mote period, We. must go _ Bie ecard = own vn laws, laws, the natio by its > ceneul t: . is Su when thecee a‘ - . . in pre: still ture oe Di EOS Cc the the infancy o1 Ww - € . “ | Ca ts.Ss; bear however, a ar ae striking,analo-tgs? i onument Lis EP s EEO of @ : ww ; : é oO os d 3 Bs AAS aArrh S Ax 2 Wy FPS C ¢i4 li e f° eek ee pia ¥ © Th, a aN years;a F tribute. me, as PA ‘ : | on re is proved Dy In general a) asters the eetIndie c population O} whole Giths of the whoie pop Moxico.. snd La | vato, Valladolid, 24 Ulaxan a, a! , GHiths ae of Ms abis ay appear Gh . - capitation. ol to form In Guanax ‘3 - o 5 ints to tarec Uti. (he amounts ¢ enous inhabitants ( vite pila tee She, ad x number OF indig anty se DO-ereA rad quary. of the cultiva ym wen 1s) adds) » yndouptesi ly auas ye oy . i proves the ORES : . m ' . This traveller goes the north, traversed . e He adds; : tion and civilization. e . “ee The people, : 3 however aha , who !: a Nee: Mexico, left behind them traces of cultiva- The Taultees appeared first in | the year 648; the Chichimecks in 1170; the Nahual- 4 fees in 1178; the Acolhues and Aztees, in 1196. The Laultees int uitivatiion of maize aultees introduc ed the cultivat and cotton; they built cities, made roads, andconstrac ted ss those great pyramids, which ; ire yet admirme ed, and of ; Which the faces 3 a are very acet | iFatel) Jaid out. Dhey knew the use of iweroglyphical Paintings ; they could found metals, and cut the hardest ef @fones. And they ‘ . * pre . . { P popuia- Puebla, this ‘por ia . . a 26 A ‘ ae ae et fw. : . an 3 . | Ne ce ™ inundated the country of Anahuac.—The lith aecentury. . Seva the etree more civilized people. gy to several 0 rhe ye Crueil crucity of the Europeans nas y Again he says5 h id inhabitants of the West la‘rpated tec the old inhabitants ¢ entirely extirp sntinent of America, however, has witdies. ‘The continent ¢ : The number of IneI nessed no sach horrbie resualt. is two millions and a half,in dians in New Spain * ha ve te mixture of Europea cluding only those - efi} more consolatory eA 15; is staim What‘ation. far efrom declining, Nes - African blood. -orea se for the last filly that the indigenous population, mecrease IC been considerably 73 . ° as bearinga resemblance to the inundations of | the baro io ; barous hordes of Goths and: Vandals from the north of Europe, aud overw helming the Roman empire, in the % ies 5 st a e on to speak of those Indian migrations from eee es were e gratious among the Americans.” its proper 7 ical hieroglyph . thin hordes o shieroglyphical tables of the Aztees have transmitted to Se: tana us tie memor y ofthe principal epochs of the great mi- energy. And we eh . n stone, and works of scujp‘paintings, buildings wen. “hich, ate ctillin preservation; which, though they affest 5 find in Oaxana the Rio Gila, issued forth those warlike nati ons, who governed display AEL,. Accordingly we : successively actual state o jough to palhint them in their = it is not enous uiserv after the Spanish conquests. degradation tSR . mites, two pastoral nations, of whom . Spain ; of the — cok N scattered over a vast territory. Agriculture and civilization were concentrated in the plains south of the river of Santiago.—From the 7th to the 13th century, population seems in generatto have continually flew ed towa rds the 4°south.@ From the regi , ons situ ated sout h = e : of give an accurate idea Our author further says 5 habitants of New AND - tion of this country. ‘ 5 “To JUDAH - fri 4 remaining monuments of Mexican architecture, which ; Proves a singularly advanced state of civilization. * When the Spaniards conquered Mexico, they foun d very few inhabitants in the countries situated beyo nd | the parallel of 20 degrees. Those provinces (that were ; 5 : ancy beyond) were the abode of the Chic himecks and Olo- _— ne e recollect that izen of ‘Plascakept; and w her to e tumults of war,acit tock advantage ot la in the agi ; ; mbyour an alphabet. to write the facility onere | ae larce Rofh volumes on the history in his own pear : rhichl hed Pr »plores eC the subja ection ?”° eDi > OF ; % ~ of had a solar year more aud Romans. > > Pe ; . AP, periect than that of FE Phe form ry’ ‘ the Greeks v of their government indica- £% “i ted that‘ they were the descendants of a people who had™® SEHR ; exper yreat Viciss S o. erienced 1e vet great vicissitudes in their social ety wh itK where (he adds) is the source of that cultivatstate ion? [ > . p ere ic is the country from lexicans issued |7??? ®. ‘ :' > . ee which the — ed Taultees and ; # |
