378 HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



Dr. Robertfon fays, that the territories belonging to 

 the chiefs of Tezcuco and Tacuba, fcarcely yielded in 

 extent to thofe of the fovereign of Mexico ( d). But 

 this is very far from being true, and contrary alfo to 

 what all the hiftorians of Mexico fay. The kingdom of 

 Tezcuco, or Acolhuacan, was bounded on the weft 

 partly by the lake of Tezcuco, partly by Tzompanco, 

 and other Mexican ftates \ and in the eaft, by the domi- 

 nions of Tlafcala ; fo that it could not extend from weft 

 to eaft, above fixty miles ; on the fouth it was bounded 

 by the ftate of Chalco, belonging to Mexico ; and in the 

 north by the independent ftate of the Huaxtecas. From 

 the frontier of this country to that of Chalco, the dif- 

 tance is about two hundred miles, which is the whole 

 extent of the kingdom of Acolhuacan, but does not 

 make one eighth part of that of the Mexican dominions. 

 The ftates of the petty king of Tlacopan, or Tacuba, 

 were fo fmall, that they did not merit the name of a 

 kingdom ; for from the Mexican lake in the eaft, to the 

 frontier of the kingdom of Michuacan in the weft, the 

 extent was not more than eighty miles ; nor from the 

 valley of Toloccan in the fouth, to the country of the 

 Oromies in the north, more than fifty. The compari- 

 fon therefore made by Robertfon, of the dominions of 

 Acolhuacan and Tacuba, with thofe of Mexico, is erro- 

 neous. 



The republic of Tlafcala, furrounded by the Mexican 

 and Tezcucan dominions, and by the ftates of Cholula 

 and Huexotzinco, was fo confined, that from eaft to 

 weft it had fcarcely fifty, and from fouth to north not 



above 



(d) There were three places of the name of Tochtlan^ (called by the Spani- 

 ards Tuftla), the firft in the province of Chiapa, the fecond in Xoconochco, or 

 boconufco, and the third in Coatzacualco. 



