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• At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
• Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and…
• We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what…
• Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics…
• Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the…
• There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.
• I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
• The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
• During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.
• Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
• The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.
• There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.

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