XXvi ACCOUNT OF THE WRITERS OF THE 



about the year 1632, a volume in folio, on the Origin 

 of the Indians, and their firft Colonies in the Country of 

 Anahuac. 



Carlos de Siguenza e Gongora, a celebrated Mexican 

 profelTor of mathematics in the univerfity of his native 

 country. This author has been one of the moft compre- 

 henlive writers on the Hiftory of Mexico, as he made, at 

 a great expenfe, a large and choice colle6lion of ancient 

 pi^lures and manufcripts, and applied himfelf with the 

 greateft diligence and affiduity to illuflrate the antiquity 

 of that kingdom. Befides many mathematical, critical, 

 hiftorical, and poetical works compofed by him, fome of 

 them manufcripts, fome of them printed in Mexico from 

 the year 1680 to 1693, he wrote in Spaniih, i. The 

 Mexican Cyclography y'Bi work of a great labour, in which, 

 by calculating eclipfes and comets, marked in the hiftori- 

 cal piflures of the Mexicans, he adjufted their epochs 

 with ours, and by availing himfelf of good inftrudlion, 

 explained the method they ufed to count centuries, years, 

 and months. 2. TJoe History of the Chechemecan Empire^ 

 in which he explains what he found in Mexican manu- 

 fcripts and paintings concerning the firfl colonies which 

 paffed from Afia to America, and the events of the moft: 

 ancient nations eft:abliflied in Anahuac. 3. A long and 

 learned DifTertation on the Announcing of the Gofpel in 

 Anahuac ; which was done there, as he believed, by the 

 apoftle St. Thomas, fupporting his opinion on traditions 

 of the Indians, croiTes found, and formerly worfliipped 

 in Mexico, and other monuments. 4. The Genealogy 

 of the Mexican Kings ; in which he traced their afcending 

 line as far back as the feventh century of the Chrin:ian 

 sera. 5. Critical Annotations on the Works of Torque- 

 mada and Bernal Diaz ; all thefe moft: learned manu- 

 fcripts 



