CHAP. XII.

Shewing some particulars of the great and famous City of Mexico in former times; with a true description of it now. And of the State and Condition of it, in the yeare 1625. pag. [42].

Contents.

Little substance or nourishment found in the fruits, and other food of Mexico. pag. [42]. [43].

Severall opinions concerning the difference of fresh and salt water in the Lake of Mexico, p. [43]. [44].

Montezuma his stately Palace in Mexico, called Tepac, with two more, the one with many ponds of salt and fresh water for severall sorts of fowles; the other for hawking fowles, and fowles of rapine. p. [44]. [45].

Three thousand were the Attendants in Montezuma his Court, fed with what came from his Table. p. [46].

Mexico called formerly Tenuchtitlan, and why? [ibid].

What Mexico properly signifieth, and from whence so called. p. [47].

The Names of the ten Emperours that were of Mexico, and Montezuma his death. [ibid].