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Show A p p E N D I X. the pla.ce where the opuntia is in the fione, alluoing· to .what we have already faid refpeCling the foundation of this great city. The fecond figure is that by which they expreiled a gem. The name Chalco means in or upon the gem (y). T he third figute is the hinder part of .a man clofe to a ru{h plant, and the fourth is the fame clofe to a flower, .lignifying the cities of 'rol/antzinco and Xocbit zincho, the names of .which fignify, at the eud of the place full of rulhes, and at the end of the flowers, or ftow(' ry field : and almoft all the names of places which have the termination in t zinco, and which are numerous, have a fimilar iignifioation, and are rcprefcnted by fimilar figures. The fifth figure is a little branch of the tree Huaxin upon a nofe, in order to reprcfent the city of Huaxjacac, a name compofe;d of Hunxin andjacatl, and means upon the point or extremity of the little tree Huaxin; becaufe although jacatl, fignifies properly the uofe, it alfo is ufed to iignify any other point. As ?:epdacllc, the name of two places means, upon the point of the mountain. In the fixth figure appears an earthen pot upon three fiones, as the Indians ufed to place it, and fiill do fo, in order to keep it over tire, and in the mouth of the pot is the figure of water, to reprefent the city of Atotonilco (z ), which o~me fignifies, in hot water, or the place of the baths. I The feventh figure is that of water, in which ~ppeaFs a man with his arms opened, in token of rejoiciQg, repn:fenting .the city of Ahuilizapan, called by the Spaniards Orizab4, the name of which.means, in the water of pleafure, or in the chearful .r:iver. The eighth figure. is al(o that of water i~ a mouth, reprefenting ·the city of Atenco (a). This name is compounded of At!, water, of Tenth', lip, or metaphorically bank, !bore, edge, &c. &c. and the prepofition, or article co, which moons in, Co that Atenco means .upon (y) ;Acofia fay s, that CI.NrlcD mcam, in the mo\tths, but the Mexican name lignifying the mouth ts Camail, and when th ey would fay, in the mouths, they exprefs it Camnc. (7) There were, and are many places, C3lled Atcnco, but the mofi confidcrable was that whtch appears clofc to Tezcuco, in our chart of the Jakes of Mexico. (~).On the z6th da! of February of the above mentioned year, the year according to ~he t~en.dtan of Alex:mdnn, which was built three centuries after, prop~rly began. Q.:. Curr. hb. tv, c •. u. See La Lande Ailronomic, n. 1597• the |