[708] Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iv., p. 7. 'En todos los caminos que tenian hechos de cañas, ò paja, ò yervas, porque no los viessen los que passasen por ellos, y alli se metian, si tenian gana de purgar los vientres, porque no se les perdiesse aquella suciedad.' Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 70.
[709] Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. ii., p. 298. The authorities for the description of the city are: Relatione fatta per vn gentil'huomo del Signor Fernando Cortese, in Ramusio, Navigationi, tom. iii., fol. 309, and in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., p. 390-2, with plans; Cortés, Cartas, pp. 43, 83-4, 102-9, 209; Id., Despatches, p. 333, plan; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 70-3; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i. pp. 91-4, 147, 157-8, 206-7, 288-98, 306-7, 460; Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 465-8, 500-1; Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 180-3, 187-8; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. l.; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 113-16; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., pp. 283-4, 299, 305; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. ii., p. 141; Ortega, in Id., tom. iii., p. 319; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vii., cap. xiii., xiv., dec. iii., lib. ii., cap. xi.; Id., (Translation, Lond. 1725), vol. ii., p. 372, vol. iii., p. 194, view and plan; Camargo, Hist. Tlax., in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1843, tom. xcix., pp. 174-5; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. i., pp. 168-9; Heredia y Sarmiento, Sermon, pp. 95-6; Tezozomoc, Hist. Mex., tom. ii., p. 184; Montanus, Nieuwe Weereld, pp. 81, 238-9; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. ii., pp. 443-9, tom. iii., pp. 231-2, 427, tom. iv., pp. 3-7, 209-10; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 310-14, 664, tom. ii., pp. 216-28, with plan; Prescott's Mex., vol. i., pp. 16-17, vol. ii., pp. 69, 76-86; Mühlenpfordt, Mejico, tom. ii., pt ii., p. 255; Alaman, Disertaciones, tom. i., p. 184-8; Helps' Span. Conq., vol. ii., pp. 310-14, 456, 471-2, 490-1, with plans; Carli, Cartas, pt i., pp. 35-6; Peter Martyr, dec. v., lib. x.
[710] Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. ii., p. 197; Prescott's Mex., vol. ii., p. 69.
[711] Cortés says 'piedra seca.' Cartas, p. 60, but this is contradicted by Bernal Diaz, who found it to be of stone and mortar. Hist. Conq., fol. 43. 'Sin mezcla de cal ni barro.' Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vi., cap. iv.
[712] Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 150, gives the measurement at eight feet in height and eighteen in width.
[713] Cortés, Cartas, p. 60; Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 43; West-Indische Spieghel, pp. 225-6. Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 150, with a cut.
[714] Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., p. 186.
[715] Delaporte says that streets met on the hills. Reisen, tom. x., p. 256.
[716] Cortés, Cartas, p. 67; Relatione fatta per vn gentil'huomo del Signor Fernando Cortese, in Ramusio, Navigationi, tom. iii., fol. 308; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vi., cap. xii.
[717] Cortés, Cartas, p. 171. See Warden, Recherches, pp. 67-8, on fortifications. In Michoacan, some towns had walls of planks two fathoms high and one broad. Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iii., cap. iii.