(García Icazbalceta, note to 2nd Dialogue of Cervantes Salazar, p. 185.)
“The Palace of Axayacatl, which served as a lodging or quarters for the Spaniards, stood in the Calle de Sta. Teresa and the 2a Calle del Indio Triste.”
So far as I can ascertain, no eye-witness or early historian describes the position of the Palace of Axayacatl, but tradition and a consensus of later writers place it outside the Temple Enclosure to the north of the Calle de Sta. Teresa and to the west of the 2a Calle del Indio Triste. No northern boundary is given.
Taking the point A in the line of the Calle de Tacuba as the hypothetical site of the middle of the entrance in the Eastern wall of the Temple Enclosure and drawing a line A-B to the Eastern end of the C. de Arzobispado, we get a distance of about 450 feet; extend this line in a northerly direction for 450 feet to the point C, and the line B-C may be taken as the Eastern limit of the Temple Enclosure.
The Northern and Southern entrance to the Enclosure must have been at D and E, that is in the line of the Calle de Iztapalapa.
Extending the line B-E twice its own length in a westerly direction brings us to the South end of the Empedradillo at the point F.
Completing the Enclosure we find the Western entrance at G in the line of the Calle de Tacuba and the north-west corner at H.
This delimitation of the Temple Enclosure gives a parallelogram measuring roughly 900′ × 1050′, not at all too large to hold the buildings it is said to have contained, and not far from Sahagun’s doscientos brazas en cuadro (1012′ × 1012′).
It divides the Enclosure longitudinally into two equal halves, which is on the side of probability.
It leaves two-thirds of the Enclosure to the West and one-third to the East of the line of the Calle de Iztapalapa[[3]].