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Show 6 H I S T 0 R Y 0 F M E ~ I C 0. BooK I. the port and city of AcapulcQ lie. This provin~e was divided 'into '- • ' feveral diftintt ftates, namely, 'l'zompanco, Chtlapan, Tlapan, and 'Ieoitztla, now 'riflla, a country for the 'moil: part too hot, and unhealthy. Tlachco, a place celebrated for its filver mines,. either belonged to the above mentioned province, or bordered upon it. Mixtecapan, or the province of the Mixtecas, extended itfelf from Acatlan, a place diftant ~n hundred and twenty miles from the cou'rt, towards the fouth-eaft, as far as the Pacific Ocean, and contained feveral cities and villages, well inhabited, and of confiderablc trade. To the eafi of the Mixtecas, were the Zapotecas, fo called from their capital Teotzapotlan. The valley of Huaxyacac was in their diftrict, called by the Spaniards Oaxaca, or Guaxaca. The city of Huaxyacac, was afterwards conftituted a bi!hoprick, and the valley a marquifate in favour of the conqueror D. Ferdinand Cortes (e). To the northward of the Mixtecas was the province of Mazatlan, and to the northward and the eaftward of the Zapotecas was Chimantla, with their capitals of the fame name, from whence their inhabitants were called Ma~atecas, and Chinantecas. The provinces of the Chiapanecas, Zoqui, and ~eleni were the laft of the Mexicanempire towards the f'!uth-eafi:. The principal cities of the Chiapa' necas were Tochiapan (called by the Spaniards Chiapa de Indios),. Tochtla, CI.Jamolla, and Tziuacantla, , of the Zoqui, Tecpantla, and of the OEeleni,. Teopr'xca~ Upon the fide and around the famous mountain Popocatepec,. which is thirty-three miles difiant towards the. fouth-eafi from tbe court, were the great fiates· Amaquemecan, Tepoztlan, Jauhtepec, Fluaxtepec,. Cbietlan, Itzocan, A capetlayoccan, ~tauhquechol/an, Atlixco, Cholollan, and 1-Iuexotzinco; thefe two lafi:, which were the moft confiderable,. having~ with the affifiance of theit:: neighbours the Tlafcalans, !haken off the Mexican yoke,. re-efi:ablifhed. their former ariftocratical , gov:ernment. Cholollan, or Cholula, and ( e) · Some believe, tohat anciently there was nothing in the place called IIuaxyacnc, but a n1cre gnrrifon of thC' Mcxic.ms, and that that city was founded by the Spaniards ; but be fides . that it appears by the tribute-roll, that Huaxyacac was one of the tributary cities to the crown of Mexico, we know that the Mexicans were not accufiomed to c!lablifli. any garrifon, except in the moft populous places of their conquered provinces. The Spaniards were faid to ' tountl a city whenever t11ey gave a Spanifh name to an Jndian fcttl mcnt, and gave it Sp:mifh magiLl:rates ; . .ll?lllqNtrll in Hti11K;iarac1 nnd Srgura della Fro11tera; in 'l'eprjacac w~re no o~henvife founded. l .Huexot- • . . • ·I ·I S T 0 R Y 0 F M E X I C 0. H uexorninco wete the largeft and moil: populous cities of all that land. no o K r, .The Cholulaos RO~elled a fmall hamlet called Cuitlaxcoapan, in the '-"'""V-J very place where afterwards the Spaniards founded the city of Angelo-poli, which is the fccond of New Spain (.f). To the eafi: of Cholula there was the refpeCtable fl:ate of Tcpeyacac;. and beyond that, the Popolocas, whofe principal cities were Teca~ ?nachalco and ~echolac. To the fputhward of the Popolocas there was the fiate of Tehuacan, bordering upon the country of the Mixtccas; to the eafi: the maritime province of Cuetlacl.Jtlrm, and to the north the Totonacas. This great province, which was the Iafi in t~at part of the empire, extended a hundred and. fifty miles, begin-· nmg from the fl·ontier of Zacat/an, a fiate belonging to the crown of Mexico, about eighty miles difiant from the court, and ter ... minating in the Gulf of Mexico. Befides the capital Mizquibuacan fifteen miles to the eaftward of Zacatlan, there was the beautifuj city of Chempoallan upon the coaft of the Gulf, which was the firfi city of the empire entered by the Spaniards, and where, as :-'ill hereaft~r appear, their fuccefs began. Thefe were the principal mland provwces of the Mexican empire; omitting the mention, at prefent, of feveral other Ieifer ftates, which might render our defcri ption tedious. .Among the m:~ ritime provinces of the Pacific Ocean, the moil: no:thern was ~oliman; whofe cap~tal fo called, lay in I 9 deg. of latltude, and m 272 deg. of longitude. Purfuing the fame coaft, tqwards the fouth-eafi was the province of Zacatolan, with its capital of the fame name; then the coafi of the Cuitlatecas; and after it that of th,e Cohuixcas, in which difiritt was ~capulco, at prefent a celebrated port for commerce with the Philippine Iilands · in 16 deg. 40 min. of latitude, and 276 of longitude. ' .A:dj_oining to the coa~ of the Cohui~cas; were the Jopi; and nrl~ommg to th~ t, the M1xtecas, known m our time by the name of Xtcayan. Then followed the great province of Tecuantepec; and lafily, that of Xoconochco. The city of Tecuantepec, from which the ftate derived its name, was fituated on a beautiful little iiland I (() The Spaniards fay 9:it}lla, MecrJmtra, Izucar, A11'ifco and fi(_uecl.mla in place of 'Tochtfa11, .A.maqueme,·an, •ltzorrm, .Atli.,·cl1, ;md !{.Jucbq/ac, formed \ |