Anything Quote by Edward Burnett Tylor

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

— Edward Burnett Tylor

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

— Edward Burnett Tylor

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

— Edward Burnett Tylor

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

— Edward Burnett Tylor

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

— Edward Burnett Tylor

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

— Edward Burnett Tylor

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as…

— Edward Burnett Tylor