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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



We are certain, therefore, in the firfl: place, that the 

 Mexican dominions did not extend in the fouth beyond 

 Xoconochco, and that none of all the provinces which 

 at prefent are comprehended in the diocefes of Guatima- 

 la, Nicaragua, and Honduras, belonged to the Mexican 

 empire; In our iv th book we have faid, that Tliltototl, 

 a celebrated Mexican general, in the laft years of king 

 Ahuitzotl, carried his victorious arms as far as Guati- 

 mala ; but there we alfo add, that it is not known that 

 that country remained fubject to the crown of Mexico ; 

 the contrary appears rather from hiftory to be the truth, 

 Torquemada, in book ii. c. 81. makes mention of the 

 conqueft of Nicaragua by the Mexicans, but what he 

 affirms there of an army of the Mexicans in the time of 

 Montezuma, is in book iii. c. 10. attributed by him to 

 a colony which had gone out many years before, by 

 order of the gods, from the neighbourhood of Xoconoch- 

 co ; wherefore his account is not to be depended upon. 



Bernal Diaz, in chap, clxvi. exprefsly affirms, that 

 the Chiapanefe were never fubdued by the Mexicans ; 

 but this is not to be underftood of their whole country, 

 but of a part only ; becaufe we know from Remezal, 

 Chronicler of that province, that the Mexicans had a 

 garrifon m Tzinacantla ; and it is certain from the tri- 

 bute lift, that Tochtlan, and other cities of that coun- 

 try, were tributaries of the Mexicans-. 



In the north, the Mexicans did not advance farther 

 than Tuzapan, as we are told in the laft quoted pafTage 

 of Diaz ; and we know for certain, that the Panuchefe 

 were never fubje&ed to them. In the eaft, we have al- 

 ready fixed their boundaries at the river Coatzacualco. 

 Diaz fays, that the country of Coatzacualco was not a 

 province of Mexico ; on the other hand we find, among 



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