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HISTORY OF MEXICO* 



tcr it that of the Cohuixcas, in which di{lri£l was Aca- 

 pulco, at prefent a celebrated port for commerce with 

 the Phiiippiiie Iflands, in i6 deg. 40 min. of latitude,, 

 and 276 of longitude. 



Adjoining to the coaft of the Cohuixcas, were the 

 Jopi ; and adjoining to that, the Mixtecas, known m 

 our time by the name of Xicayan, Then followed the 

 great province of Tecuantepec ; and laftly, that of Xo- 

 Gonochco. The city of Tecuantepec, from which the 

 ftate derived its name, was fituated on a beautiful little 

 illand, formed by a river two miles from the fea. The 

 province of Xoconochco, which was the lafl: and mofl 

 fouthcrly of the empire, was bounded on the eaft and 

 fouth-eaft by the country of Xochitepec^ which did not 

 belong to the crown of Mexico ; on the weft,, by that 

 of Tecuantepec ^ and on the fouth terminated in the. 

 ocean. Its capital, called alfo Xoconochco^ was fituated 

 between two rivers, in 14 deg. of latitude, and in 283 

 of longitude. Upon the Mexican Gulf there were, be- 

 fides the coaft of the Totonacas, the provinces of Cuet- 

 lachtlan and Coatzacualco ; this laft was bounded on 

 the eaft by the vaft country of Onohualco^ under which 

 name the Mexicans comprehended the ftates of Tabafco, 

 and the peninfula of Yucatan, which were not fubjed 

 to their dominion. Befides the capital, called alfo 

 Coatzacualco, founded upon the borders of a great ri- 

 ver, there were other well-peopled places amongft which 

 Painalla merits particular mention by having been the 

 place of the nativity of the famous Mal'mtzitiy one of 

 the moft powerful inftruments of the conqueft of Mex- 

 ico. The province of Cuetlachtlan which had a capital 

 fo called, comprehended all that coaft which is between 

 the river Alvarado, where the province of Coatzacualco 



terminates. 



