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DISSERTATION II. 



On the Principal Epochs of the History of Mexico, 



THE different opinions of authors concerning the 

 chronology of the hiftory of Mexico, oblige us 

 to examine with attention the epochs of the principal 

 events. If we had done this in the body of our hifto- 

 ry, it would have interrupted the narration with unfea- 

 fonable difputes. The variety of fentiments among 

 writers on this head, arifes from their not having ad- 

 jufted the Mexican years with ours. We have laboured 

 with great diligence to inveftigate the truth, and we 

 think we have in great part fucceeded, as we (hall en- 

 deavour to (hew in the prefent dilTertation, which will, 

 however, prove little interefting to thofe who have no 

 tafte for, or curiofity in, points of chronology. 



SECT. I. 



On the Epoch of the Arrival of the Toltecas, and other Na- 

 tions in the Country of Anahuac. 



WE do not treat now of the firft peoplers, but only 

 of thofe nations who make a confpicuous figure in our 

 hiftory. Authors in the firft place difagree about the 

 order of the arrival of fuch nations ; as the Checheme- 

 cas for example, who, according to Acofta, Gomara, 

 and Siguenza, were the firft to arrive in that country, 

 and, according to Torquemada, the third, were the 

 fourth, if we believe Boturini. Nor are they Jefs dis- 

 cordant about the arrival of every other nation. 



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