Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2 / A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

by Brantz Mayer

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Footnotes

[ [51] John Quincy Adams's letter to Mr. Anderson, minister to Columbia, May 27, 1823. See President's message on the Panama Congress, March, 1823.

[ [52] Zavala, Historia, vol. 1, p. 38.

[ [53] Robinson's Hist. Mex. Rev. p. 10.

[ [54] Ward's Mexico, vol. 1, p. 127. Id. p. 157.

[ [55] This term has been variously interpreted; it is supposed to be an ancient Indian word significant of contempt. It is applied by the natives to the European Spaniards or their full blooded descendants. See Robinson's His. Rey. Mex., 15.

[ [56] Robinson Memoir Mex. Rev. 19.

[ [57] Ib. p. 20.

[ [58] Wards' Mexico in 1827, vol. i. p. 169.