MEXICO.
BOOK I.
SECTION I.
BOUNDARIES. — GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE. — CLIMATE.
The Republic of Mexico, which comprises the whole of the vast territory formerly subject to the Vice-royalty of New Spain, is bounded to the East and South-east by the Gulph of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea; to the West by the Pacific; to the South by Guatemala, which occupies a part of the Isthmus of Darien; and to the North by the United States.
The exact line which separates the provinces of Las Chiapas and Tabasco from the territory of Guătĕmālă has not yet been fixed, but is at present the subject of amicable discussion between the two governments. To the North, the frontier is defined, with sufficient exactness, by the treaty of Washington,[1] the validity of which, since the declaration of Independence, has been tacitly acknowledged both by Mexico and the United States.
- ↑ This treaty was signed on the 22d February, 1819, by Mr. Adams and the Chevalier Onis, then Spanish Minister at Washington.
