Sonora, 76,900 220,553 Hermosillo, 10,613 Tabasco, 10,072 158,107 San Juan Bautista, 10,543 Tamaulipas, 32,128 220,253 Victoria, 10,086 Tlaxcala, 1,595 172,217 Tlaxcala, 2,847 Vera Cruz, 29,201 960,570 Jalapa, 20,388 Yucatan, 20,203 227,264 Merida, 43,630 Zacatecas, 24,757 496,810 Zacatecas, 32,856 Tepic, 11,257 149,677 Tepic, 15,488 Lower California, 58,328 47,082 La Paz, 5,046 Federal District, 463 530,723 City of Mexico, 344,721 Quintana Roo, 15,000 85,000 Santa Cruz de Bravo, 2,000 II The broken character of the surface of Mexico is shown by the many high mountain peaks which are scattered over the country. Most of these peaks are extinct volcanoes, although one of them, Colima, is in constant eruption. The following table gives the name, location and height of all the peaks over ten thousand feet in height:— Mountain. State. Elevation. Popocatepetl, Mexico, 17,782 ft. Orizaba, Vera Cruz, 17,362 ft. Ixtaccihuatl, Puebla, 16,060 ft. Toluca, Mexico, 15,019 ft. Colima, Jalisco, 14,263 ft. Ajusco, Federal District, 13,660 ft. Cofre de Perote, Vera Cruz, 13,641 ft. Zapotlan, Jalisco, 12,743 ft. Tancitaro, Michoacan, 12,653 ft. Zempoaltepec, Oaxaca, 11,141 ft. Pico de Quinco, Michoacan, 10,900 ft. III SUGGESTIONS FOR TRAVELLERS The visitor to Mexico will find few inconveniences in the way of railway travel. The coaches are, with only occasional exceptions, of American manufacture, and the through trains on most of the railroads have Pullman coaches at fares that are considerably lower than in the United States. It is well to make the trip going and coming to the capital by different routes, choosing the El Paso route for one trip and the Laredo gateway for the other. If the visitor is from the eastern part of the United States, a sea voyage from either New York or New Orleans to Vera Cruz makes a pleasant variation to the monotony of railroad travel. If bound for San Francisco one can travel through the republic to Salina Cruz, and there embark for that city. When the Southern Pacific extension is completed to Guadalajara this will also furnish another good way either to enter or leave Mexico.