The Republic of Mexico in 1876A political and ethnographical division of the population, character, habits, costumes and vocations of its inhabitants . rs had come fromthe East, and others relying with more or less certainty onthe classification of languages and in the identity of ancientmonuments revealed by various ruins, imagine to have dis-covered an immigration from the West and the traces of thisperegrination in the ruins of Comalcalco in Tabasco. In thepeninsula of Yucatan, these pyramids are again observed,with the small hillocks called cues, with the singular circums-tance of their be
The Republic of Mexico in 1876A political and ethnographical division of the population, character, habits, costumes and vocations of its inhabitants . rs had come fromthe East, and others relying with more or less certainty onthe classification of languages and in the identity of ancientmonuments revealed by various ruins, imagine to have dis-covered an immigration from the West and the traces of thisperegrination in the ruins of Comalcalco in Tabasco. In thepeninsula of Yucatan, these pyramids are again observed,with the small hillocks called cues, with the singular circums-tance of their being hollow, in like manner to what is noticedin the pyramid of the Moon at Teohotihuacan, it being alsoremarked that in the ate at Yucatan, explored by Mr. Ste-phens, the interior compartments were distinct. The Mayas having united under the command of a mo-narch, formed a vast empire, whose capital was the city ofMayapan, and which was afterwards divided into variousStates governed by special rulers. The Aztecs designated thepositions occupied by the Mayas and the natives of Tabascoby the name of Onohiialcos, which means independent 109 Torquemada states that the Mayas inhabited the kingdomof Yucatan, which covered an extent of more than three hun-dred leagues, and that it was well populated and administeredby individual authorities. They were ruled by good laws andcustoms ; they enjoyed peace and justice, which is an argu-ment that favors their good government, and he attributesthis particularly to their all speaking the same language, andis not a little surprised that so many people and so extendedover a place of so many leagues, should understand with eachother in the same dialect. Yucatan was discovered by Francisco Fernandez de Cor-dova in 1517 and was conquered by Captain Francisco deMontejo in 1527. The multitude of stone buildings and tem-ples which the Spaniards met with and the celebrated ruinsof palaces which have caused the admiration of intelligenttra
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