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HIEROGLYPHICAL HISTORY 
OF THE 
AZTECKS, 
FROM 
THE DELUGE TO THE FOUNDATION 
OF THE 
CITY OF MEXICO. 
PLATE XXXIl, 
This historic painting has already been pub- 
lished, at the end of the seventeenth century, in 
the narrative of the voyage of Gemelli Carreri. 
Although the Giro del Mondo of this author is 
a work well known, we have thought it proper 
to republish this piece, on the authenticity of 
which some ill-founded doubts have been raised, 
that deserve to be examined with the most scru- 
pulous attention. It is only by the reunion of a 
great number of documents, that we can hope 
