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mountain of the locusts, a place shadowed by 

 ancient cypresses, and celebrated for the magni- 

 ficent view from the top of the hill* ; Coxcox, 

 king of Colhuacan (No. 30), denoted by the 

 same phonetic hieroglyphics as are found in the 

 square, which represents the deluge of Coxcox, 

 and the mountain of Colhuacan ; Mixiuhcan 

 (No. 29), place of childbirth ; the city of Te- 

 mazcatitlan (No. 26) ; the city of Tenochtitlan 

 (No. 34), designated by dykes traversing a 

 marshy soil, and by the nopal (cactus) on which 

 reposed the eagle, which had been pointed out 

 by the oracle, to mark the place where the Az- 

 tecks were to build a city, and finish their migra- 

 tions ; the founders of Tenochtitlan (No. 35) ; 

 those of Tlatelalco (No. 27) ; the city of Tlate- 

 lalco (No. 28), which is at present only a suburb 

 of Mexico. 



We shall not enter into an historical detail of 

 the events to which the simple and compound 

 hieroglyphics of the painting of Siguenza relate. 

 These events are recorded in Torquemada, and 

 in the ancient history of Mexico published by the 

 Abb6 Clavigero. Besides, this picture is less 

 curious as a monument of history, than interest- 

 ing, from the method which the artist has follow- 

 ed for the connexion of facts. We shall content 

 ourselves with noticing here, that the bundles of 



* See my Essay on New Spain, vol. i, page 179, 2. 



