necessary utensils in domestic use. Now, the 
country of Zacatollan having been subjected by 
the kings of Anahuac, it does not appear proba- 
ble, that in the environs of the capital of the 
kingdom they continued to engrave stones by 
grinding, if metallic chisels could be procured. 
This hard Mexican copper was no doubt alloyed 
with tin, in the same manner as the tool found at 
Vilcabamba, and that Peruvian hatchet, which 
Godin sent to M. de Maurepas, and which Count 
Gayhis thought was tempey^ed copper. 
