Note 44 — Chapter I · NICARAGUA: BOUNDARIES, TOPOGRAPHY, LAKES, RIVERS, PORTS, CLIMATE, POPULATION, PRODUCTIONS, MINES, ETC., ETC.
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The large province, now State of Chiapas, included in the Republic of Mexico, also belonged to the old kingdom of Guatemala. After the independence, it was appropriated by Mexico, which, under the rule of Iturbide, endeavored to annex to itself the whole of Central America.