LONDON: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and H. Colburn: and W. Blackwood, and Brown and Crombie, Edinburgh. 1811
Abstract
AMS Press, Inc. New York 1966
London 1811
CONTENTS
Geographical introduction.-Vol i. p. 1.
BOOK I.
General considerations on the extent and physical aspect of the kingdom of New Spain. Influence of the inequalities of the soil on the climate, agriculture,
commerce, and military defence of the country.
CHAPTER I.
Extent of the Spanish possessions in America. Comparison of these possessions with the English colonies, and with the Asiatic part of the Russian empire.
Denominations of New Spain, and of Anahuac. Boundary of the empire of the Aztec kings. - Vol. i. p. 5.
CHAPTER II.
Configuration of the coast.-Points where the two seas are least distant form one another.-General considerations on the possibility of uniting the South Sea
and Atlantic ocean.-Rivers of Peace and Tacoutche-Tesse.-Sources of the Rio-Bravo and Rio-Colorado.-Isthmus of Tehuantepec.-Lake of Nicaragua.-Isthmus of
Panama.-Bay of Cupica.-Canal of Choco.-Rio-Guallaga.-Gulf of St. George.-Vol. i. p. 16.
CHAPTER III.
Physical aspect of the kingdom of New Spain compared with that of Europe and South America.-Inequalities of the soil.-Influence of these inequalities on the
climate, cultivation, and military defence of the country.-State of the coasts.-Vol. i. p. 46
BOOK II.
General population of New Spain. Division of the inhabitants into casts.
CHAPTER IV.
General enumeration in 1793.-Progress of the population in the ten following years.-Proportion of births to burials.-Vol. i. p. 89.
CHAPTER V.
Maladies which periodically arrest the progress of population.-Small-pox, natural and inoculated.-Cow-pox.-Matlazahuatl.-Famine.-Health of miners.-Vol. i. p.
111.
CHAPTER VI.
Diversity of casts.-Indians or indigenous Americans.-Their number and their migrations.-Diversity of languages.-Degree of civilization of the Indians.-Vol.
i. p. 130.
CHAPTER VII.
Whites, Creoles, and Europeans.-Their civilization.-Inequality of their fortunes.-Negros.-Mixed casts.-Proportion between the sexes.-Longevity according to
the difference of races.-Sociability.-Vol. i. p. 204.
BOOK III.
Particular statistical account of the intendancies of which the kingdom of New Spain is composed.-Their territorial extent and population.
CHAPTER VIII.
Of the political division of the Mexican territory, and the proportion of the population of the intendancies to their territorial extent.-Principal
cities.-Vol. i. p. 263.
BOOK IV.
State of the agriculture of New Spain.-Metallic mines.
CHAPTER IX.
Vegetable productions of the Mexican territory.-Progress of the cultivation of the soil.-Influence of the mines on cultivation.-Plants which contribute to
the nourishment of man.-Vol. ii. p. 399
