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MEXICO AND THE MEXICANS.
by W.B. HOLDEN.
Americans know but little of the great country that lies to the south of
us. They would consider it an evidence of ignorance if a Mexican had
never heard the name of one of the United States, yet not one American
in a hundred can name five of the twenty-seven States, which, with two
territories and a federal district, make up the great republic of
Mexico. As to size, an equal ignorance prevails. The average person
thinks that Mexico is about as large as Pennsylvania, and is surprised
to hear that it has one-fifth the area of the United States, including
Alaska.
Here are some figures which may serve to show its size. It is six times
as large as Great Britain, more than three times as large as Germany,
and you could lose three countries as big as France inside it. Across
the top of it, where, like a great horn, it is fastened to the United
States, it is as long as Topeka is distant from New York city, and a
line drawn from the root of the horn at California, diagonally across it
to its tip at Guatemala, would be as long as the distance from New York
to Denver.
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