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.
More Quotes by Edward Burnett Tylor
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.
At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.
During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.