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Excerpt from Museum Stories for Children, Vol. 22: March-April, 1934 But life here was miserable. The water was brackish and unfit to drink. The name Aztec means place of the herons or heron people and no doubt this was most suitable, for they lived as the herons were living - among the reeds. Twenty-five years after reaching the islands, the Aztecs secured the right to use the water of the spring at Chapultepec, The Hill of the Grasshoppers. This was a most important step. Soon several frames of wattlework were sunk in the lake and filled with dirt. Thus new land was added. The village grew into a town with terra cotta water mains bringing fresh water from the spring. Causeways connected the growing community with the shore. In honor of one of their gods, the Aztecs called the rapidly developing center, Tenochtitlan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.