Selections From the Works of the Baron De Humboldt, Relating to the Climate, Inhabitants, Productions, And Mines of Mexico
Selections From the Works of the Baron De Humboldt, Relating to the Climate, Inhabitants, Productions, And Mines of Mexico
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N& doubts on the first arrival of the Spaniards on the coast of Chalcfaihuouecsn (Vera Cruz)^ all the eonDtry from the river of Papaloapan (Alvarado ta Huaxtecapan) was better inhabited and better cul- tivated than it no^ is. The conquerors, however, found, as they ascended the table-land, the villages closer together, the fields divided into smaller porrtions, and the people more polished. The Spa- niards, who imagined they founded new cities when they gave European n&mes to Aztec cities, foll...owed the traces of the incUgenous civilization. They had very powerful nifotives for inhabiting the table-land of Anahuae. Tliey dreaded the heat, and the ^6- eases^ which pevail in the plains. The search after the precious metals, the cultivation of European gntin and fruity the analogy of the climate with that of the CastiUes, and other causes, all concurred to fix them on the ridge of the Cordillera. So long as the Uncamenderos, abusing the rights which they derived feom die laws» treated the Indians as serfs, a great number of them were transported from the regions of the coast to the table-land in the interior, either to work in the mines, or merely that they might be near the habitation of thdr masters.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
N& doubts on the first arrival of the Spaniards on the coast of Chalcfaihuouecsn (Vera Cruz)^ all the eonDtry from the river of Papaloapan (Alvarado ta Huaxtecapan) was better inhabited and better cul- tivated than it no^ is. The conquerors, however, found, as they ascended the table-land, the villages closer together, the fields divided into smaller porrtions, and the people more polished. The Spa- niards, who imagined they founded new cities when they gave European n&mes to Aztec cities, foll...owed the traces of the incUgenous civilization. They had very powerful nifotives for inhabiting the table-land of Anahuae. Tliey dreaded the heat, and the ^6- eases^ which pevail in the plains. The search after the precious metals, the cultivation of European gntin and fruity the analogy of the climate with that of the CastiUes, and other causes, all concurred to fix them on the ridge of the Cordillera. So long as the Uncamenderos, abusing the rights which they derived feom die laws» treated the Indians as serfs, a great number of them were transported from the regions of the coast to the table-land in the interior, either to work in the mines, or merely that they might be near the habitation of thdr masters.
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