ritStORY OF MEXICO. 



land. The Cholulans poffeffed a fmall hamlet called 

 Cuitlaxcoapan, in the very place where afterwards thp 

 Spaniards founded the city of Angelopoli, which is the 

 fecond of New Spain (f J. 



To the eaft of Cholula there was the refpe6lable ftate 

 of Tepeyacac ; and beyond that the Popolocas, whofe 

 principal cities were lecamachalco and ^echolac. Td 

 the fouthward of the Popolocas there was the ftate of 

 lehuacan^ bordering upon the country of the Mixtecas ; 

 to the eaft the maritime province of Cuetlachtlan, and 

 to the north the Totonacas. This great province, 

 which was the laft in that part of the empire, extended 

 a hundred and fifty miles, beginning from the frontier 

 of Zacatlan^ a ftate belonging to the crown of Mexico^ 

 about eighty miles diftant from the court, and terminat- 

 ing in the Gulf of Mexico. Befides the capital Miz- 

 quibuacan^ fifteen miles to the eaftward of Zacatlan, 

 there was the beautiful city of Chenipoallan upon the 

 coaft of the Gulf, which was the firfl city of the empire 

 entered by the Spaniards, and where, as will hereafter 

 appear, their fuccefs began. Thefe were the principal 

 inland provinces of the Mexican empire ; omitting the 

 mention, at prefent, of feveral other lelTer ftates, which 

 might render our defcription tedious. 



Among the maritime provinces of the Pacific Ocean, 

 the moft northern was Coliman ; whofe capital fo call- 

 ed, lay in 19 deg. of latitude, and in 272 deg. of lon- 

 gitude. Purfuing the fame coaft, towards the fouth-eafl 

 was the province of Zacatolan, with its capital of the 

 fame name ; then the coaft of the Cuitlatecas ; and af- 

 ter 



ffj The Spaniards fay Mecameca^ Izucar^ Atrifco and ^echula^ in place ■ 



of Tochtlan^ Amaquemecan, Itzocan, Atlixco^ and ^echolac. 



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