Excerpt from Mexico, California and Arizona: Being a New and Revised Edition of Old Mexico and Her Lost ProvincesIN my opinions about Mexico I am glad to have been sanguine, because it is now seen that there was excellent ground for it. But I am glad also to have been a little sceptical, for the results have by no means equalled the highest expectations of the time of the railway inva sion. I have summed up now all the important changes since my early visit, and, as in most other human affairs, it is found that the realization is in a happy medium be tween the views of the extremely hopeful and of those who look always only upon the darkest side of any project.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.