Edward Burnett Tylor Quotes

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

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

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

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 in writing.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

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

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

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

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

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

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.