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(landing Siguenza makes him afcend the throne at forty 

 years and upwards. In the collection of Mendoza this 

 king is not given more than ten years of reign. Tor- 

 quemada and Siguenza give him thirteen, which account 

 is certainly the mod probable, confidering the feries of 

 his anions and events : but Betancourt following Tor- 

 quemada, makes many notable anachronifms on this fub- 

 jecl. He fixes the election of Chimalpopoca in the time 

 of Techotlalla, king of Acolhuacan ; let us fuppofe that 

 it was in the laft year of this king : Techotlalla was fuc- 

 ceeded by Ixtlilxochitl, who reigned feven years. Ixtlil- 

 xochitl by Tezozomoc, who tyrannifed over that empire 

 nine years, and to him Maxtlaton fucceeded, in whofe 

 time Chimalpopoca died. According to thofe fuppofi- 

 tions adopted by Torquemada and Betancourt, we mufl 

 give Chimalpopoca at ieaft fixteen years of reign, refult- 

 ing from the feven of Ixtlilxochitl and the nine of Tizo- 

 zomoc ; which is contrary to their own chronology and 

 that of other hiftorians. If we choofe to combine the 

 chronology of the kings of Mexico with that of the 

 kings of Tlatelolco, agreeably to the calculation of the 

 above mentioned authors, there will hardly remain nine- 

 teen years to be divided between the two kings Chi- 

 malpopoca and Itzcoatl, as we {hall afterwards find. 

 Granting therefore thirteen years of reign to Chimal- 

 popoca, according to the opinion of moft hiflorians, we 

 ought to fix the beginning of it in 1410. Maxtlaton 

 fucceeded to Tezozomoc, his father, a year before the 

 death of Chimalpopoca, that is, in 1422. Tezozomoc 

 kept the crown of Acolhuacan nine years ; having died 

 in 1422, his tyranny began therefore in 141 3. With 

 refpecl to Ixtlilxochitl, the lawful king of Acolhuacan, 

 we know that he reigned feven years until 141 3, when 



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