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The Aztecs

"[Its?] boundaries cannot be defined with
certainty. They were much enlarged in
the latter days of the empire, when they
may be considered as reaching from about
the 18° north to the 21° on the Atlantic, and
from the 14° to the 19° including a very
narrow strip, on the Pacific. In its
greatest breadth it could not exceed five
degrees and a half, dwindling as it approached
its southeastern limits to less
than two. It covered, probably, less than
16000 aq. leagues. ([?] as large as
[?] Eng}

The Mexicans came from the more
remote regions of the North. They arrived
on the boarders of Anabuac towards the
beginning of the 13" century, some
time after the occupation of the land
by the kindred races. (At first they