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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



Spaniards founded many fettlements, fuch as the cities of 

 Angelopoli, Guadalaxara, Valadolid, and Veracruz, 

 Zelaja, Potofi, Cordova, Leone, &c. but the fettlements 

 made by them in the diftricts of the Mexican empire with 

 refpecl: to thofe made by the Indians are as one to a thou- 

 fand. The Mexican names given to thofe fettlements 

 are (till preferved to this day, and demonftrate that the 

 original founders of them were not Spaniards but In- 

 dians. That thofe places of which we have made fre- 

 quent mention in this hiftory were not miferable villages, 

 but cities, and large well formed fettlements, fuch as 

 thofe of Europe, is certified by the united teflimony of 

 all writers who faw them. 



M. de Paw is defirous of being (hewn the veftiges of 

 thefe ancient cities ; but we could {hew him more than 

 that, the ancient cities now exifting. However, if he 

 choofes to fee traces of them he may go to Tezcuco, O- 

 tumba, Tlafcala, Cholula, Huexotzinco, Chempoalla, 

 Tulla, &c. where he will find fo many that he will have 

 no doubt of the ancient greatnefs of thofe American 

 cities. 



This great number of towns and inhabited places, al- 

 though fo many thoufands periftied annually in the facri- 

 fices and continual wars of thofe nations, gives us clearly 

 to underftand the vafl population of the Mexican em- 

 pire, and the other countries of Anahuac ; but if all 

 this which we have faid is not fufEcient to convince M. 

 de Paw, in charity, we advife him to enter into an hof- 

 pital. 



"What we have applied againft M. de Paw may ferve 

 likewife to refute Dr. Robertfon, who, feeing fo many 

 eye-witneifes contrary to him in opinion, recurs to a fub- 

 terfuge fimilar to that of the warmth of the imagination 

 which he made ufe of to deny faith to the Spanifli hif- 



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