Excerpt from The History of Ancient Mexico, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Foundation of That Empire to Its Destruction by the Spaniards So much of the following volumes as relates to the ancient history of Mexico, will prove new to most readers of this country. For, alt ough a trans lation of the work of the Abbe Clavigero, from which the matter is chiefly drawn, was published in London in 1787, and republished in Philadelphia, some twen ty years since, it was in form and volume, too large for popular use, and is consequently to be found only in our larger public libraries. To the work of Dr. Robertson, the public owes almost all its knowl edge of the very interesting country of which we now treat; but, that work, as we have in our prece ding volume remarked, abounds ia misrepresents tions, is very defective in detail, and labours to cast doubts on the power, civilization and arts of the Mexican States. Indeed, one of the principal inducements of Clavigero for undertaking his histo r was to correct the errors and supply the omis Sions of the celebrated English historian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.