_Mexico_ is enuironed with swéete water, and hathe thrée wayes to come vnto it by calsey, the one is from the West, and that calsey is a mile and a halfe long. Another from the North, and conteyneth thrée myles in length. Eastwarde the Citie hathe no entrye. But Southwarde the Calsey is syxe myles long, whyche was the waye that _Cortez_ entred into the Citie. The lake that _Mexico_ is planted in, although it séemeth one, yet it is two, for the one is of water saltishe, bitter, and pestiferous, and no kinde of fyshe lyueth in it. And the other water is wholesome, good and swéete, and bringeth forth small fishe. The salte water ebbeth and floweth, accordyng to the winde that bloweth. The swéete water standeth higher, so that the good water falleth into the euill, and reuerteth not backward, as some hold opinion. The salt lake conteyneth fiftéene miles in breadth and fiftéene in length, and more than fiue and fortie in circuite, and the lake of swéete water conteyneth euen as muche, in such sort, that the whole lake conteyneth more than thirtie leagues, and hath about fiftie townes scituated round about it, many of whyche Townes doe conteyne fiue thousand housholdes, and some tenne thousande, yea and one Towne called _Tezcuco_, is as bigge as _Mexico_. Al this lake of water springeth out of a Mountayne that standeth within sight of _Mexico_. The cause that the one part of the lake is brackishe or saltish, is, that the bottome or ground is all salte, and of that water greate quantitie of salt is dayly made. In this greate lake are aboue two hundred thousande little boates, which the _Indians_ call _Acalles_, and the _Spanyardes_ call them _Canoas_, according to the spéeche of _Cuba_ and _Santo Domingo_, wrought like a kneding trough: some are bigger than other some, according to the greatenesse of the body of y^e trée whereof they are made. And where I number two hüdred thousand of these boates, I speake of the least, for _Mexico_ alone hathe aboue fiftie thousande ordinarily to carrie and bring vnto the Citie victuall, prouision, and passengers, so that on the market day all y^e stréetes of water are full of them. The Market place of Mexico. The Market is called in the _Indian_ tong _Tlanquiztli_: euery parish hath his Market place to buy and sel in: but _Mexico_, and _Tlatelulco_ only, which are y^e chiefest cities, haue great fayres and places fitte for the same, and especiallye _Mexico_ hath one place where most dayes in the yeare is buying and selling, but euery fourth day is the greate Market ordinaryly: and the like custome is vsed throughout the dominions of _Mutezuma_.