4 MEXICAN HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. 



"Clavigero," says Prescott, 1 "talks of Boturini's having written 'on the faith of 

 Toltec historians.' 2 But that scholar does not 'pretend to have ever met a Toltec MS. 

 himself, and had heard of only one in the possession of Ixtlilxochitl. 3 The latter 

 writer tells us that his account of the Toltec and Chichimec nations was ' derived 

 from interpretation' (probably of the Tezcocan paintings), 'and from the traditions 

 of old men ;' 4 poor authority for events which had passed centuries before." This 

 depreciation of the sources of recorded and traditionary information in regard to 

 Mexico by Mr. Prescott, has drawn a critical notice from Don Jose F. Ramirez, in 

 his notes on the Spanish translation of the history of the conquest, published in 

 Mexico. 5 The criticism, though earnest and ingenious, does not seem to improve 

 our sources of knowledge and their authoritative value. Seiior Ramirez was natu- 

 rally anxious to sustain the idea of an extremely ancient civilization, and to destroy 

 as much as possible the fabulous air which some of the Spanish narratives were 



No. 2. Torquemada's " Monarchia Indiana." 



3. Bernardino de Sahaguns's " Historia Universal de Nueva Espania." 



4. Boturini's "Idea da una Nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional." 



5. Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's "Relaciones, Historia Chichimeca." 



6. Castaneda's "Viaje a Cibola," 1540. 



7. Fray Bartolome de las Casas, "Historia General de las Indias," &c. &c. 



8. Antonio de Herrera's " Historia General de las Indias Occidentales." 



9. Torebio de Benavente, "Historia General de los Indios de Nueva Espania." 



10. Pietro Martire de Anglera, "Decades de Orbe Novo." 1587. 



11. Gonzalo de Oviedo y Valdes, "Historia General de las Indias." 



12. Diego Munos Camargo's " Historia de Tlascala — pedazo de historia verdadera." 



13. Francisco Lopez de Gomara's "Cronica de la Nueva Espania." 



14. Bernal Diaz del Castillo's "Historia Yercladera de la Conquesta de la Nueva Espania. 



15. Pesquisia contra "Pedro de Alvarado y Nuno de Guzman." 



16. Don Martin Yeytia's "Historia Antigua de Mejico." 



17. Clavigero's " Storia Antica de Messico." 



18 Antonio Leon y Gama's "Descripcion de las dos Piedras," &c. &c. &c. 1832. 



19. Lord Kingsborough's "Mexican Antiquities." London, 1830. 



20. Cavo y Bustamante's "Tres Siglos de Mejico." 



21. Alaman's works on Mexican History, &c. &c. 



22. Nebel, " Yoyage Pittoresque et Archreologique a Mexique." 



23. Stephens's works on Central America, Yucatan, and Chiapas. 



24. Norman's works on Yucatan and Mexico. 



25. Catherwoocl's illustrations of Stephens's works. 



26. Bartlett's "Personal Narrative." 



27. Mexico : Aztec, Spanish, and Republican. 



28. De Solis, " Historia de la Conquista de Mejico." 



29. Robertson's "History of America." 



30. Prescott's "History of the Conquest of Mexico." 



31. Ramirez, Notes on the Spanish translation of the last work ; — Mexico, 1844. 



32. The vols, of the American Ethnological Society's Transactions." 



1 Prescott, Conq. Mex., I, 12, note. 



3 Storia de Messico, I, 128. 



3 Nueva Historia General, p. 110. 



4 Ixtlilxochitl, Rel. 



5 Prescott, Conquista de Mejico, vol. II; notes, p. 1. 



