. American history:. eign of the predecessor of Montezuma, it is asserted by numerous historians, that its walls and stairways, its altars and shrines, were consecrated with the blood of more than sixty thousand victims; and that r Conclusion SIX miUions of people attended at the sacrifice. These arrivfd at i i i i i ^ rr^ • from these accounts are probably greatly exagirerated ; but sufncient accounts. , .,, ^ • T * ^^u ^ xl j f is known, with certainty, to prove that some thousands ofimmortal beings were annually immolated to a blind andbloody idolatry. Part II.] 569 CHAPTER II. COLONIAL HIS
. American history:. eign of the predecessor of Montezuma, it is asserted by numerous historians, that its walls and stairways, its altars and shrines, were consecrated with the blood of more than sixty thousand victims; and that r Conclusion SIX miUions of people attended at the sacrifice. These arrivfd at i i i i i ^ rr^ • from these accounts are probably greatly exagirerated ; but sufncient accounts. , .,, ^ • T * ^^u ^ xl j f is known, with certainty, to prove that some thousands ofimmortal beings were annually immolated to a blind andbloody idolatry. Part II.] 569 CHAPTER II. COLONIAL HISTORY OF MEXICO* 1. A brief account of the conquest of Mexico by theSpaniards, in the early part of the sixteenth century, hasalready been given.* The conquest vested the sove-reignty of the country in the crown of Spain, whichguarantied that, on no account should it be separated,wholly or in part, from the Spanish monarchy. I. Conquestof Mexico bythe Span-iards. a. See p. 114. VICINITY OF WEXICi Scale of * The whole extent of JIexico is equal to nearly ouc-lburtii of Kuropo, or to two-thirds of theUnited States and their territories, and is embraced between the 15th and 42d degrees of northlatitude. Although the difference of latitude alone would naturally have the effect of produc-ing considerable changes in the temperature of the more distant points, jet it is not to this cir-cumstance, so much as to the peculiarity of its geological structure, that Mexico owes thatsingular variety of climate by which it is distinguislied from most other countries of the world. The Andes Mountains, after traversing the whole of South America and the Isthmus ofPanama, on entering the northern continent separate into two branches, which, diverging tothe east and west, but still preserving tlieir dii-ertion towards the north, leave in the centre animmense platform or tnhle-lanci, intersected by the higher points and ridges of the great moun-tain chain by which it is supported, but ra
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