book 6, chapter 9 (volume 3)_.

_C. Beard, The Reformation (Hibbert Lectures., 1883), lecture 6._

ANAHUAC.

"The word Anahuac signifies 'near the water.' It was, probably, first applied to the country around the lakes in the Mexican Valley, and gradually extended to the remoter regions occupied by the Aztecs, and the other semi-civilized races. Or, possibly, the name may have been intended, as Veytia suggests (Historical Antiquities, lib. 1, cap. 1), to denote the land between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific."

_W. B. Prescott, Conquest of Mexico,