History of the Conquest of Mexico, With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, And the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés 2
History of the Conquest of Mexico, With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, And the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés 2
William Hickling Prescott
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has afforded more numerous species of these last, than New Spain ; and their virjtues were perfectly understood by the Aztecs, with whom medical bot- any may be said to have been studied as a science. Amidst this labyrinth oF sweet-scented groves and shrubberies, fountains of pure water might be seen throwing up their sparkling jets, and scattering re- freshing dews over the blossoms. Ten large tanks, well stocked with fish, afforded a retreat on their margins to various tribes of water-fowl, w...hose habits were so carefully consulted, that sdme of these ponds were of salt water, as that which they most loved to frequent. A tessellated pavement of marble in- closed the ample basins, which were overhung by light and fanciful pavilions, that admitted the per- fumed breezes of the gardens, and offered a grateful shelter to the monarch and bis mistresses in the sultry heats of summer.^* Bqt the most luxurious residence of the Aztec monarch, at that season, was the royal hill of Cha- poltepec, a spot consecrated, moreover, by the ashes of his ancestors.
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