vities had again brought round the more so

n his chair, and the secretary at attention

eater part of Colorado), Mexico proper reached way up here; and it is thought by some archaeologists that the mesas or table-mountain land especially characterizing the New Mexican landscape may have afforded the suggestion for the

e New Mexican Indians were not Aztecs, and Montezuma had no more to do with New Mexico th

ecords," said the Antiquary, "have long since perished. They are known to us only

venth century. They appear to have been a far more gentle and refined nation than their immediate successors, the half-savage Aztecs, who, at last, with their se

said to have been largely indebted to them for the beginnings of that incongruous civilization which reached its high-water mark in the

e writer, 'still to be seen in Mexico, are referred to this peop

merica and the neighboring isles; and that the majestic ruins of Mitla and Paleque are the work of this vanished race. Tradition affirms that a remnant of Toltecs still lingering in Anahnac 'gave points' to the next inhabitants; and the Tezcucans are thought to have derived the

psed between the strange disappearance of the Toltecs from th

, but pitched their tents in various parts of the Mexican valley, enduring many casualties and hardshi

adventures are perpetuated i

ound on the face of the Mexican silver dollar. Thus it runs: 'Having in 1325 halted on the southwestern borders of the larger Mexican lakes, the Aztecs there beheld, perched on the stem of a prickl

ich the oracle announced as an indica

ows. On these they erected the light dwelling-fabrics of reeds and rushes,-the frail beginnings of that solid Aztec architecture carried to such elegant elaboration in the

tablished in Mexico, finally attained to a civilization far

far short of that enjoyed by our Saxon ancestors under Alfred. In respect to the nature of it, they may better be compared to the Egypt

e, and ultimately established a reputation for courage as well as cruelty in war which made their name terrible throughout the valley.' In the early part of the fifteenth century-nearly a hundred years after the foundation of the city-that remarkable league-of which it has been affirmed that 'it has no parallel in history'-was formed between th

than the treaty itself, however, is

il. By the middle of the fifteenth century the allies, overleaping the rocky ramparts of their own valley, found wider occupation for their army, and under t

nd at the beginning of the sixteenth century, on the arrival of the Spaniards, th

ting account of these ancient races, supplemented his information by a general discussion of the gen

between the history of the Aztecs and that of the ancient Romans

records of the Mexican people can only be scantily gle

"we have the seemingly more definite and re

rd to suit their own bigoted views; consequently, much of the narrative popularly k

rd Diaz'-that enigmatical personage from whom many of Prescott's data are drawn-tells us that the Aztecs actually fattened men and women in cages, like spring chickens, for their sacrifice, and asserts that at the dedication of one of their temples a procession of captives two miles long, and numbering seventy-two thousand persons, were led to sacrifice! By the way, it has, however, been latterly proved that the so-called sacrificial stone, now exhibited in the National Museum of Mexic

y finish him off with 'Betsy Prig's' very conclusive objectio

en the cruel enormities of their agent, Cortez. Father Torquemada, another of Prescott's authorities, is thought to be scarcely more reliable. Las Casas, another of our histori

is implicit honesty of purpose. He gave us, in his own learned and fascinating way, the narrative of these

upon rose to open the parlor door for the gray-eyed school teacher, who just then bade

the Koshare course for the second Saturday in F

side door, and with a friendly grasp from the hand of Miss Paulina, and a sh