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the fatigues of agriculture. They retained the name of 

 Chechemecas, and the others who were brought to ci- 

 vilization began to be called Acolhuas^ honouring them- 

 felves with the name of a nation which was efteemed 

 the mod polifhed. Of the Otomies, thofe who adopted 

 a civil life retained the name of Otomies, by which they 

 are known in hiftory; but the others, who were fpread 

 in the woods, and mingled with the Chechemecas, would 

 never give up their barbarous liberty, and were by ma- 

 ny called Chechemecas, from the name of that celebra- 

 ted nation; on which account fome writers, treating of 

 thofe barbarians, who for more than a century after the 

 conqueft, haraffed the Spaniards, diftinguifli the Mexi- 

 can Chechemecas from the Chechemecas of the Otomies; 

 for the one fpoke the Mexican language, and the others 

 that of the Otomies, according to the nation whence 

 they drew their origin. 



From all that we have hitherto faid, we may conclude 

 with the greater! probability pofhble in fo obfcure a fub- 

 je&, that the order and time of the arrival of thofe na- 

 tions in the country of Anahuac was as follows: 



The Toltecas, in the year 648. 



The Chechemecas, about the year 11 70. 



Thefirft Nahuatlacas, about 1 178. 



The Acolhuas, toward the end of the twelfth century. 



The Mexicans arrived at Tula in the year 1196, at 

 Tzompanco in the year 1216, and at Chapol tepee in the 

 year 1245. 



The Otomies entered the vale of Mexico, and began 

 to form into focieties in the year 1220. 



We know well that the Tepanecas boafted of their 

 city of Azcapozalco being fo old, that according to Tor- 

 quemada they counted one thoufand five hundred and 



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