Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volumen 4Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814 |
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... foreign commerce , and the relations which subsist between the interior and the ports of Vera Cruz and Acapulco ; besides facilitating an exchange between the produc- tions of the mountains and the burning plains of the coast . The ...
... foreign commerce , and the relations which subsist between the interior and the ports of Vera Cruz and Acapulco ; besides facilitating an exchange between the produc- tions of the mountains and the burning plains of the coast . The ...
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... foreign commerce of New Spain , from the position of the coasts , is naturally composed of the commerce of the South Sea , and that of the Atlantic Ocean . The ports on the eastern coast are Campeche , Huasacualco , Vera Cruz , Tampico ...
... foreign commerce of New Spain , from the position of the coasts , is naturally composed of the commerce of the South Sea , and that of the Atlantic Ocean . The ports on the eastern coast are Campeche , Huasacualco , Vera Cruz , Tampico ...
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... foreign agriculture and industry . Denomination of goods and commodities . Quantities . Value in dou ble plastres . Butter • 15,884 lib . 4,678 Cheese · 259 quint . 10,334 Wine 16,920 bott . 12,690 White paper 87,665 reams 328,714 Steel ...
... foreign agriculture and industry . Denomination of goods and commodities . Quantities . Value in dou ble plastres . Butter • 15,884 lib . 4,678 Cheese · 259 quint . 10,334 Wine 16,920 bott . 12,690 White paper 87,665 reams 328,714 Steel ...
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... foreign produce 8,851,640 S 20,390,859 Exportation for Spain 33,866,219 Balance in favour of the exportation 13,475,360 Commerce between the mother country and Vera Cruz 54,275,078 piastres Importation from America Exportation for ...
... foreign produce 8,851,640 S 20,390,859 Exportation for Spain 33,866,219 Balance in favour of the exportation 13,475,360 Commerce between the mother country and Vera Cruz 54,275,078 piastres Importation from America Exportation for ...
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... foreign agriculture and industry . Denomination of goods Value in dou Quantities . es and commodities . ble piastres . Butter 3,660 lib . 2,747 Cheese 524 quint . 1,840 Sausages 884 lib . 1,295 Cod 200 quint . 5,000 Beer 1,455 bott ...
... foreign agriculture and industry . Denomination of goods Value in dou Quantities . es and commodities . ble piastres . Butter 3,660 lib . 2,747 Cheese 524 quint . 1,840 Sausages 884 lib . 1,295 Cod 200 quint . 5,000 Beer 1,455 bott ...
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Acapulco agriculture amounted annually arrob average Cadiz Callao Cape Capitania Caracas cent climate cocoa commerce consulado contains Cruz Cuba disease ditto duties epidemic Europe Europeans expences exportation francs galleon gold and silver Guanaxuato Guayaquil half of piastres Havanah heat hospital Huasacualco hundred thousand piastres idem Importation increase Indians inhabitants Island of Cuba Isthmus Juan kilogrammes latitude leagues Lima livres tournois longitude Madrid Manilla merchants mercury Mexican Mexico militia millions of piastres mines month Mother Country navigation north west observed Perote Peru Philippine Islands population port precious metals presidios produce province provincias internas Puebla quantity quint quintals revenue road Saint San Blas Santa Spain Spanish America Spanish colonies Sterling sugar Tabasco table land Tehuantepec tion torrid zone Total town trade Trans troops United Value in dou value in piastres Vera Cruz vessels viceroy vomito Voyage West India Islands western coast winds Xalapa yellow fever
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Página 43 - The produce of the home manufactures, " have been in great request, and all the de" mands could by no means be satisfied, which " ought to excite the manufacturers to increase " the activity of their workshops. " 4. The importation of European brandy " would have been much greater, if it had not " been for the increasing consumption of rum " manufactured in Mexico. The wines of " Xeres and Rioxa are in the greatest re»
Página 201 - under the torrid zone, the smallest marshes are the most dangerous, being surrounded, as at Vera Cruz and Carthagena, with an arid and sandy soil, which raises the temperature of the ambient air...
Página 284 - ... this important truth, that the prosperity of the whites is intimately connected with that of the Copper coloured race, and that there can be no durable prosperity for the two Americas till this unfortunate race, humiliated but not degraded by long oppression, shall participate in all the advantages resulting from the progress of civilization and the improvement of social order ! NOTES AND SUPPLEMENT.
Página 88 - The sphere of their ideas has been extended, wants have been communicated to them which they were ignorant of, and within these twenty years they have made a considerable progress towards that social state which we very improperly designate by the word...
Página 25 - Fabrica ; but its navigation is extremely difficult on account of the seven pyramids (raudaks) which are counted between its source and the mouth of the Rio de Saravia. It would be of infinite importance again to order this ground to be examined by intelligent engineers, to determine whether, as was believed by M. Cramer, the canal between the two seas, can be executed without locks or without inclined planes, and whether by blowing up the rocks with powder, the beds of the rivers Passo and Chimalapa...
Página 25 - Chimalapa, the mountains form a groupe rather than an uninterrupted chain, and ' that there exists a transversal valley, in which a canal of communication might be cut between the two seas.
Página 58 - I have seen few situations in either hemisphere of a more savage aspect, I would say at the same time more dismal and more romantic. The masses of rocks bear in their form a strong resemblance to the dentilated crest of Montserrat in Catalonia. They are composed of granite of a large grain like that of Fichtelberg and Carlsbad in Germany. This granite is stratified, but the banks are irregularly inclined, sometimes to the south and sometimes to the south east.
Página 24 - Tehuantepec ; and that on ascending it beyond the cataract, even as far as the old desembarcadero de Malpasso, they were still more than 26 leagues distant from the shores of the South Sea. They observed that a chain of mountains of very inconsiderable height, divides the waters between the gulf of Mexico, and the gulf of Tehuantepec. This small cordillera stretches from east to west, from the Cerros de los Mixes, formerly inhabited by a wild and warlike tribe* towards the elevated table land of...