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just nestled among the reeds, rocks and marshes of the lake, was quickly spread beyond the mountain barrier that hemmed in the valley. Like the Hollanders, they became great by the very wretchedness of their site, and the vigilant industry it enforced. The Aztec arms were triumphant throughout all the plains that swept downward towards the Atlantic, and, as we have seen, even maintained dominion on the shores of the Pacific, or penetrated, under the bloody Ahuitzotl, the remotest corners of Guatemala and Nicaragua.

Such was the extent of Aztec power at the beginning of the 16th century, at the period of the Spanish incursion.

Note.—The discrepancies in the dates assigned by several writers as to the periods of the emigration of various tribes and the reigns of their sovereigns, are carefully presented in the following table, given by Albert Gallatin, in his essay on the Mexican nations—1 vol. Ethnol. Soc. Transac. 162.

Toltecs
	Alva	Sahagun.		Veytia		Clavigero.
Arrived at Huehuetlalpallan	387	. . . .		. . . .		. . . .
Departed from do	. . . .	. . . .		596		544
They found Tula	498	. . . .		713		720
Monarchy begins	510	. . . .		. . . .		667
Monarchy ends	959	. . . .		1116		1051
Chichimecas and Acolhuans or Tezcocans.						$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$about
Xolotl, 1st King occupies the valley of Mexico	963	. . . .		1120		1170
Napoltzin, 2d King ascends the throne	1075	. . . .		1232		13 cen
Huetzin, $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$
TlotzinKing, so called erroneously, ascends
the throne	1107	. . . .		1263		14 cen
Quinantzin, 4th King ascends the throne	1141	. . . .		1298		14 cen
Tlaltecatzin 1st King according to Sahagun ascends
the throne	. . . .	1246		. . . .		. . . .
Techotlalatzin 5th (2d, Sahagun) ascends the throne	1253	1271		1357		14 cen
Ixtlilxochitl 6th (3d, Sahagun)"" "	1357	1331		1409		1406
Netzahual-Coyotzin 7th (4th, Sahagun) ascends the
throne	1418	1392		1418		1426
Netzahual-Pilzintli 8th (5th, Sahagun) ascends the
throne	1462	1463		....		1470
Netzahual-Pilzintli dies	1515	1516		. . . .		1516
Tepanecs, or Tecpanecs of Acapulco
Acolhua arrives	1011	. . . .		1158		. . . .
Acolhua 2d son of Acolhua 1st arrives	. . . .	. . . .		1239		. . . .
Tezozomac son according to D'Alva, grandson
according to Veytia of the 1st Acolhua arrives	1299	1348		1343		. . . .
Maxtlan, son of Tezozomac arrives	1427	. . . .		1427		1422
Mexicans or Aztecs.
Mexicans leave Aztlan	. . . .	. . . .		1064		1160
"arrive at Huelcolhuacan	. . . .	. . . .		. . . .		1168
"”arrive at Chicomoztoc	. . . .	. . . .		1168		. . . .
"” at valley of Mexico	1141	. . . .		1227		1216
"” at Chapultepec	. . . .	. . . .		1248		1245
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