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necessary utensils in domestic use. Now, the 

 country of Zacatollan having' been subjected by 

 the kings of Anahuac, it does not appear proba- 

 ble, that in the environs of the capital of the 

 kingdom they continued to engrave stones by 

 grinding, if metallic chisels could be procured. 

 This hard Mexican copper was no doubt alloyed 

 with tin, in the same manner as the tool found at 

 Vilcabamba, and that Peruvian hatchet, which 

 Godin sent to M. de Maurepas, and which Count 

 Caylus thought was tempered copper. 



