Edward Burnett Tylor

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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