[4] The Hunchbacked Mountain, on the sides of which the Mexicans won their first recorded victory.
[5] Pojautecatl, in Mexican.
[6] Huehuetapallan, was the name of the unknown land, from which came all the hordes of Toltecs and Aztecs. One remarkable circumstance connected with the famous ruined city near to Palenque in Guatemala, seems to have escaped the theorists. It is said that the Indians call this city by the name of Huehuetapallan. It is far to the south of Mexico.
[7] The Dahlia.
[8] Arbol de las Manitas—the marvellous tree, of which, besides that in the present Botanic Garden, there are supposed to be but two more specimens in the land, unless known only to the Indians.
[9] The Mexicans were accustomed to tame and domesticate certain harmless reptiles.
Clitorio quicunque sitim de fonte levârit
Vina fugit.
Metam. Lib. XV.
[11] The vale of San Juan de Teotihuacan, where stand the great pyramids of the Sun and Moon, and the smaller mounds erected to the Stars.