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Show APPENDIX 1,0 PAl~T Ill. •'a:OGRAPHICA L, STAT£STJCAT,, A ND GE:\I~rtAL OBSlo:H\ \ rz n•.;s MADI~ ny CAPT. Z. l\L l 'IKr:, ON TIH~ I TJo;JtiOJt I'HOVIX<.;l·: ~ O f" NEW SPAtN, }'llOl\1 LOUISIANA '1'0 Tl![o; V ICE ltOYALTY, A~l> DE'l'WEBN 'I'll£ PACIFIC OCEAN, CUI.l'Jl OF CALJ FOliXlA A~O THE ATLANTIC OCEA . OR GULPH OF lll EXICO. THE kingdom of New Spain, lies between the 16° and lj . .-1.0 N . Jat. and 96° and 11 8° \V. long. is divided into two scpuratc and in· dependent governments, and these ag-ain into various sub-eli vi ':lions. The vice royalty includes the administnttion!, or Gt~adab:-wra, which lies between 18° 30,' and 24° :30' N.latitude, and 104.0 and 10~0 \V.Iongitude, and is bounded south and west, by the South Sea, north by the province of' Bi!:>cay and :-, inalua; N. E. by the administration of Zacatecas; E. by the adminrslt'<ttion of Guanaxu.tto a11d S· l~ . by that o·r Valladolid, and is 350 miles in lcn~th from nonh wc'>t to south cast, and 250 in width, cast and west. I ts popuiatiou m .. y be estimated at 100 ,000. It is one of tl c lllost luxuri.mt a1Jd rich ad~ ministrations in the vice royalty; and is watered from <.;ust to west by the great t•ivet· de Santc.ro, which reccires most tJI' its waters ft·om Lac de Chapala. G uudalaxara the cnpiwl, was l•uilt by one of the Gusman family in 155 1, and in 1570, the bishoiJric was removed from Compostela to that place. It is the seat ol the audicucc of Guadalaxara, which includes Guad<.~bxara and the adlllini~u· . Hion of Zacatecas. The population of thb city m.ty be cMimatcd at 7 s,ooo, and stands in N. latitude 20° 50', \ V. longitude l 05 °. ~6 |