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represented in the ninth sheet * of the manu- 

 script. 



3. Annals of the Mexican Empire. These in- 

 clude three hundred and sixty-four years. This 

 part of the work, with which Boturini, Clavi- 

 gero, and Gama, were unacquainted, and which 

 seems to be of the greatest authenticity, de- 

 serves to be consulted by those who would wish 

 to undertake a classical history of the Mexican 

 nations. From the year 1197, as far as to the 

 middle of the fifteenth century, these annals re- 

 late but a very small number of facts, scarcely 

 one or two in an interval of thirteen years ; 

 from 1454 the narrative becomes more circum- 

 stantial ; and from 1472 to 1549 we find at large, 

 and almost year by year, an account of what- 

 ever was remarkable in the physical and poli- 

 tical state of the country. The pages containing 

 the periods from 1274 to 1385, from 1496 to 

 1502, and from 1518 to 1529, are wanting. In 

 this last interval, the entrance of the Spaniards 

 into Mexico took place. The figures are mis- 

 shapen, but often of great simplicity. We shall 

 cite, among the objects worthy of attention, the 

 image of the king Huitzilihuitl, who, having no 

 legitimate children by his wife, took a paantress*^ 



* Plate 55, fig. 2. 

 + Plate 55, fig. 3. 



