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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



Hiftorians relate, that in Tenayuca there was a review of 

 the people taken, and therefore it was likewife given the 

 name of Nepohualco^ which means, the place of enumera- 

 tion ; but what Torquemada adds, is entirely incredible, 

 that there were more than a million of Chechemecas 

 found at this review, and there remained even until his 

 time, twelve piles of the ftones which they continued to 

 throw during the review. Belides, neither is it probable 

 that fo large an army fliould fet out on fo long an expedi- 

 tion ; nor does it appear pofTible that fo fmall a diftrift 

 could fupport a million of hunters. 



The king being fettled in Tenayuca, which he deftin- 

 ed for the place of his court, and having given proper 

 orders for the forming of other towns and villages, he 

 commanded one of his captains, named Achiromatl, to 

 go and trace the fource of certain rivers which the prince 

 had obferved in his expedition. Achitomatl found in 

 Chapoltepec, in Cojohuacan, and in other places, feveral 

 Toltecan families, from whom he learned the caufe and 

 time of their defolation. The Chechemecas, not only 

 avoided to difturb thofe miferable relics of that celebrated 

 nation, but formed alliances with them, many of the 

 nobles marrying with the women of Tolteca; and among 

 others, prince Nopaltzin married AzcaxochitI, a virgin 

 defcended from Pochotl, one of the two princes of the 

 royal family of Tolteca, who furvived the deftrudlion of 

 their nation. This humanity brought its recompence to 

 the Chechemecas ; for from their commerce with that 

 induftrious nation, they began to tafte corn, and other 

 fruits of induflry; were taught agriculture, the m.anner 

 of digging metals, and the art of calling them ; alfo to 

 cut (lones^ to fpin and weave cotton, and other things, 



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