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Index map in full color with numeric notations indicating location of the accompanying maps. With eighteen inset maps and four views (Fall of Niagara, Mexico [City], Quebec and New York). Note by Edmund Halley at the bottom verifies the accuracy of…

yet all this was subsequent to his Reduction of the City of Mexico, the Capital of that Empire; and his intermediate Actions would have been far from receiving Approbation, if the Advantages attending them had not happened to be very great, in…

Fernando certainly a formidable enemy, and Motezuma forgets how much his glory is contracted.

Quetlavaca sunk under it, and a near relative of Montezuma named Guatimozin was elected Emperor in his stead […] He was a man of distinguished bravery; had besides an excellent understanding, and great generosity.

He wished on the contrary to gain as speedily as possible the coasts that lay nearest the centre of the Great Empire of, intending there to commence the projected attack.

The Empire of Mexico was then at its greatest Height, having under its Dominion almost all the Provinces and Countries which had been discovered in North America, which were govern’d by Motezuma himself, and his petty tributary Kings, or Caziques

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Mexico was then in the zenith of its glory, it comprehended all the known provinces and countries in North America, extending above five hundred leagues from east to west, and two hundred leagues from east to west, and two hundred from north to…

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Some petty Prince, and one of little Fame, For to this Hour I never heard his Name. The two great Empires of the World I know, that of Peru m and this of Mexico

He continued his March in the accustomed Order, and leaving on the one Side the City of Magiscatzingo, scituate [sic] on the Water, and on the other, that of Cuyocan, upon the Causey, besides a great many Towns, which they saw at a Distance upon the…

Are not their ships wasted towards the South? The golden mines of Mexico and Peru are within their reach: lo! Their armies and their sailors spread glory from the rising to the setting of the sun, as also saith one of their bards.

Motezuma is avowedly a monster of cruelty. Gua. Show more respect for Motezuma, who is an hero enow’d with every royal virtue.

But where is an emperor to be met with equal to the mighty Motezuma
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