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HIEROGLYPHICAL HISTORY 



AZTECKS, 



FROM 



THE DELUGE TO THE FOUNDATION 



CITY OF MEXICO. 



PLATE XXXII. 



This historic painting has already been pub- 

 lished, at the end of the seventeenth century, in 

 the narrative of the voyage of Gemelli Carreri. 

 Although the Giro del Mondo of this author is 

 a work well known, we have thought it proper 

 to republish this piece, on the authenticity of 

 which some ill-founded doubts have been raised, 

 that deserve to be examined with the most scru- 

 pulous attention. It is only by the reunion of a 

 great number of documents, that we can hope 



