. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 114 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMEEICA, WEST INDIES. runs from Jlanzanillo, the port of Colima, along a strip of sand on the south side of the Cuyutlan lagoon. This shallow basin is entirely dry during the hot season, and it is now proposed to place it in constant communication with the sea by cutting a canal through the narrow intervening neck of land. The port of Manzanillo, which is developed in the rocky coast immediately to the west of this sandy isthmus, is sjDacious, deep, and well sheltered from all winds except those blowing from the west and south-
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 114 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMEEICA, WEST INDIES. runs from Jlanzanillo, the port of Colima, along a strip of sand on the south side of the Cuyutlan lagoon. This shallow basin is entirely dry during the hot season, and it is now proposed to place it in constant communication with the sea by cutting a canal through the narrow intervening neck of land. The port of Manzanillo, which is developed in the rocky coast immediately to the west of this sandy isthmus, is sjDacious, deep, and well sheltered from all winds except those blowing from the west and south-west. These prevail especially during the rainy season, from May to October, that is to say, the healthy period of the year ; but during the dry season the climate of Manzanillo is much dreaded. Some sixty miles south-east of this plain Kes the little port of Marnata, which, while quite as Fig. 45.—Manzanillo Pcale 1 •• 1,110, I04°P0' West or breenwich I03°40' 0 to25 Fathoms. Depths. 50 to 100 Fathoms. 100 to 500 Fathoms. 18 Miles. unhealthy, is even more exposed than IManzanillo. The coast salines betweea these two ports occupy during the season from 5,000 to 6,000 native hands. The State of Michoacan is one of those regions that have long resisted assimila- tion with the rest of Mexico. The Tarascan nation had never been subdued by the Aztecs, and their chief bore the title of "Booted" in a pre-eminent sense, because, of all native princes, he alone had the right of wearing his boots in the presence of Montezuma. Proud of their ancient liberties, the Tarascans had at first welcomed the Spaniards as mere allies, and three hundred years later, during the war of independence, no other Indian warriors displayed greater valour and steadfastness against the disciplined troops of Europe. It was in the town of Apacingan, in one of the low-lying fluvial valleys converging on the Rio Mexcala, that was held the. Please note that these images are extracted from sca
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