is called _Yucatan_, and represented as an island. Colon, 1527, and Ribero, 1529, who write _Ivcatan_; Ptolemy, in _Munster_, 1530, _Iucatana_; Orontius, on his globe, 1531, _Iucatans_; _Munich Atlas_, no. iv., 1532-40, _cucatan_; Baptista Agnese, 1540-50, _Iucatan_; Mercator, 1569, _Ivcatan_; Michael Lok, 1582, _Incoton_; Hondius, 1595, Laet, Ogilby, etc., _Yucatan_, which now assumes peninsular proportions. [13] [Illustration: ARMS OF THE REPUBLIC OF MEXICO.] [Illustration: ANCIENT ARMS OF THE CITY OF MEXICO, FROM A RARE PRINT.] The term Mexico has widely different meanings under different conditions. At first it signified only the capital of the Nahua nation, and it was five hundred years before it overspread the territory now known by that name. Mexico City was founded in 1325, and was called _Mexico Tenochtitlan_. The latter appellation has been connected with _Tenuch_, the Aztec leader at this time, and with the sign of a nopal on a stone, called in Aztec, respectively _nochtli_ and _tetl_, the final syllable representing locality, and the first, _te_, divinity or superiority. The word Mexico, however, was then rarely used, Tenochtitlan being the common term employed; and this was retained by the Spaniards for some time after the conquest, even in imperial decrees, and in the official records of the city, though in the corrupt forms of _Temixtitan_, _Tenustitan_, etc. See _Libro de Cabildo_, 1524-9, MS. Torquemada, i. 293, states distinctly that even in his time the natives never employed any other designation for the ancient city than Tenochtitlan, which was also the name of the chief and fashionable ward. Solis, _Conq. Mex._, i. 390, is of opinion that Mexico was the name of the ward, Tenochtitlan being applied to the whole city, in which case Mexico Tenochtitlan would signify the ward Mexico of the city Tenochtitlan. Gradually the Spanish records began to add Mexico to Tenochtitlan, and in those of the first provincial council, held in 1555, we find written _Tenuxtitlan Mexico_. _Concilios Prov._, i. and ii., MS. In the course of time the older and more intricate name disappeared, though the city arms always retained the symbolic nopal and stone. _Clavigero_, _Storia Mess._, i. 168; iv. 265-70; _Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin_, viii. 408-15; _Veytia_, _Hist. Ant. Méj._, ii. 157-9; _Humboldt_, _Essai Pol._, i. 146-7; _Cavo_, _Tres Siglos_, i. 2; _Carbajal Espinosa_, _Hist. Mex._, i. 92-3. See also _Molina_, _Vocabulario_. A number of derivations have been given to the word Mexico, as _mexitli_, navel of the maguey; _metl-ico_, place amidst the maguey; _meixco_, on the maguey border; _mecitli_, hare; _metztli_, moon; _amexica_, or _mexica_, you of the anointed ones. The signification