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lagoons of the Taiuesi near the present pueblo, Altamira, were 

 destroyed. The survivors of these villages who escaped slavery or 

 massacre fled to the mountains, where their descendants, bereft of 

 ancestral arts, lost much of their culture and settled in new localities. 

 Let us begin our account with the Totonac ruin, Cempoalan, and 

 follow with a brief description of prehistoric earth mounds near Xico," 

 a Nahuatl pueblo not far from Jalapa, closing with a brief mention of 

 that near Antigua, the modern name of the second A'illa l\ica de la 

 Vera Cruz founded by Cortes. 



"AcontnictMl form of Xicochimalcu: abetter known pueblo of llie name Xico is situated on an 

 isl.inil <if Lake Clialc.j near Mexico City. 



