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fome months ; the commencement of his reign there- 

 fore rauft be fixed in 1470. It is known alfo, that the 

 eighth year of the reign of Nezahualpilli was the firft 

 of Tizoc, fo that this lad mud have begun his reign in 

 1477, and reigned four years and a half, as feveral his- 

 torians fay. Torquemada fays that he reigned lefs than 

 three years; but this author contradicts himfelf openly, 

 not only in this but in many other parts of his chrono- 

 logy, for as he adopts the above mentioned calculation 

 of the reign of Tizoc, he ought to have fixed his death 

 in 1480, and confequently to have given Ahuitzotl not 

 eighteen but twenty-two years of reign. 



Axajacatl. It is known that this king began to 

 reign fix years before Nezahualpilli, that is, in 1464, 

 and that he finished, as we have faid, in 1477, when his 

 fucceffor Tizoc afcended ihe throne. From that it is 

 deducible that he reigned thirteen years, as Siguenza 

 and other hiflorians affirm. Acofta does not give him 

 more than eleven years, nor the interpreter of Mendoza's 

 collection more than twelve. It is mod probable that 

 the thirteen years were not completed. 



Montezuma I. All affirm, that this famous king 

 completed twenty-eight years on the throne. Some 

 give him a year more, becaufe they reckon the months 

 which he reigned more than the twenty-eight years, an- 

 other year, which has not been reckoned by others. He 

 began therefore to reign in 1436, and finifhed in 1464. 

 In his time the Toxihumolpia^ or fecular year, was cele- 

 brated, not in the fixteenth year of his reign, as Tor- 

 quemada fays, but in the eighteenth, or 1454. 



Itzcoatl. Almofl: all hiflorians give thirteen years 

 of reign to this great king. Acofta and Martinez only 

 give him twelve. The reafon of this difference is the 



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