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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



yacac was in their diftri^t, called by the Spaniards Oaa-^ 

 aca, or Gmxaca, The city of Huaxyacac, was after- 

 wards conftituted a bifhoprick, and the valley a mar- 

 quifate in favour of the conqueror D. Ferdinand Cor- 

 tes f ej. 



To the northward of the Mixtecas was the province 

 of Mazatlan^ and to the northward and the eaflward 

 of the Zapotecas was Chimanila^ with their capitals of 

 vthe fame name, from whence their inhabitants were call- 

 ed Mazatecas, and Chinantecas. The provinces of the 

 Chiapanecas, Zoqui, and Queleni were the laft of the 

 Mexican empire towards the fouth-eaft. The principal 

 cities of the Chiapanecas were Tochiapan (called by the 

 Spaniards Chiapa de Indios), Tochtla^ Chamolla^ and 

 Tziuacantla^ of the Zoqui, Tecpantla^ and of the Que- 

 leni, Teoplxca, Upon the fide and around the famous 

 mountain Popocatepec^ which is thirty-three miles diftant 

 towards the fouth-eafl from the court, were the great 

 ftates Amaquemecan^ Tepoztlan^ Jauhtepec^ Huaxtepec^ 

 Chietlan^ lizocan^ Acapetlayoccan^ ^auhquechoUan^ Au 

 lixco^ Cholollan^ and Huexotzinco ; thefe two laft, which 

 were the moft confiderable, having, with the affiftance 

 of their neighbours the Tlafcalans, fliaken off the Mex- 

 ican yoke, re-eftablilhed their former ariftocratical go- 

 vernment. Cholollan, or Cholula, and Huexotzinco 

 were the largeft and moft populous cities of all that 



land, 



(e) Some believe, that anciently there was nothing in the place called Huax- 

 yacac, but a mere garrifon of the Mexicans, and that that city was founded by 

 the Spaniards; but befides that it appears by the tribute-roll, that Huaxyacac 

 was one of the tributary cities to the crown of Mexico, we know that the 

 Mexicans were not accuftomed to eftablifli any garrifon, except in the moft 

 populous places of their conquered provinces. The Spaniards were faid to 

 found a city whenever they gave a Spanifh name to an Indian fettlement, and 

 gave it Spanifli magiftrates ; Antequera in Huaxjacacj and Segura della Fronteruy in 

 Tepejacac were no otherwife founded. 



