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history of the native tribes of America ; but in 
traversing the country to examine its monuments, 
and make researches into its antiquities, he had 
the misfortune to excite the suspicion of the 
Spanish government. After having been de- 
prived of all the fruits of his la])ours, he was sent 
in 1736, as a state-prisoner, to Madrid. The 
King of Spain declared him innocent, but this 
declaration did not restore to him his property ; 
and his collections, the catalogue of which Bo- 
turini published at the end of his Essay on the 
Ancient History of New-Spain, printed at Ma- 
drid, lay buried in the archives of the Vice- 
royalty at Mexico. These valuable relics of the 
culture of the Aztecks were preserved with so 
little care, that there scarcely exists at present 
an eighth part of the hieroglyphical manuscripts 
taken from the Italian traveller. 
They who, before Boturini, were in possession 
of the genealogical - painting, which we now 
publish, have added to it explanatory notes, 
sometimes in Mexican, and sometimes in the 
’ Spanish language. We see by these notes, that 
the family, whose genealogy is represented in the 
drawing, is that of the (tlatoanis) of Azca- 
pozalco. The small territory of these princes, 
to which the Tepanecks gave the pompous name 
of kingdom, was situate in the valley of Mexico, 
near the western bank of the lake of Tezcuco, to 
the north of the river Escapuzalco. Torquemada 
