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the location of the City of Mex. when rebuilt by Cortez, but for a curious blindness on the part of the Conquistadors who re-built the city on the old nearby foundations with a beautiful site at the border of the marsh close by. Indeed, when the new city suffered disastrous floods from the waters of the lakes about it in later years, the spanish kings suggested its removal to the higher ground but it was then so late that the vested interests in property were too great to abandon even in the face of flooded streets.
Today the descendants of the short-sighted founders are hard