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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



were in the fame vale of Mexico, and to the north of 

 the coaft, two fmaller ones, named after the cities of 

 Tzompanco, and Xaltoccan. The lake of Tochtlan, 

 in the province of Coatzacualco, makes a fwect profpe^i:, 

 and its banks a moft delightful dwelling. With refpeft 

 to fountains, there are fo many in that land, and fo dif- 

 ferent in quality, they would deferve a feparate hiftory, 

 efpecially if we had to enumerate thofe of the kingdom 

 of Michuacan. There are an infinity of nitrous, ful- 

 phureous, vitriolic, and alluminous mineral waters, fome 

 of which fpring out fo hot, that in a few moments any 

 kind of fruit or animal food is boiled in them. There 

 are alfo petrifying waters, namely, thofe of Tehuacan, 

 a city about one hundred and twenty miles diftant from 

 Mexico towards the fouth-eaft, thofe of the fpring of 

 Pucuaro in the flates of the Conte di Miravalles, in the 

 kingdom of Michuacan, and that of a river in the pro- 

 vince of Queleni. With the water of Pucuaro they 

 make little white fmooth ftones, not difpleafmg to the 

 tafte ; fcrapings from which taken in broth, or in Atol- 

 li fij are moH powerful diaphoretics, and are ufed 

 with remarkable fuccefs in various kinds of fevers fkj. 

 The citizens of Mexico during the time of their kings, 

 fupplied themfelves with water from the great fpring of 

 Chapoltepec, which was conveyed to the city by an 

 aquedudl, of which we fliall fpeak hereafter. In men- 

 tioning 



tied, Obfervat'tons curieufes fur le Lac de Mexique, (the work exprefsly from which 

 the journallfts of Paris have made their extrads,) is very far from adopting 

 the error of M. de Bomare. 



( ij Atolli is a name given lay the Mexicans, to a gruel made of maiz or In 

 dian corn ; of which we lhall fpeak In another place. 



(k) The little ftones of Pucuaro have been known but a fhort time. I have 

 myfelf been an eye witnefs of their wonderful efFedl, in the epidemic of 176a. ' 

 The dofe prefcribed for one who is eafily brought to fweat is one drachm of 

 the fcrapings. 



