[VII-63] Dupaix, pp. 40-1, pl. xliv.-v., fig. 93-4, view of hill, and plan copied above. Kingsborough, vol. v., p. 265, vol. vi., p. 455, vol. iv., pl. xl.-i., fig. 95; Lenoir, p. 56. Dupaix's plates are copied in Mosaico Mex., tom. ii., pp. 281-4, and Armin, Alte Mex., p. 290; Fossey, Mex., p. 370. Plate from Sawkins' drawing, different from that of Castañeda, but of course unreliable, in Mayer's Observations, p. 32, pl. iv.
[VII-64] Dupaix, 2d exped., pp. 41-3; Tylor's Anahuac, p. 139.
[VII-65] Dupaix, 2d exped., pp. 37-8, pl. xli.-ii., fig. 88-90; Kingsborough, vol. v., p. 254, vol. vi., p. 447, vol. iv., pl. xxvi., fig. 78-80; Lenoir, in Antiq. Mex., pp. 23-4, 55; Tempsky's Mitla, p. 254.
[VII-66] Burgoa, Geog. Descrip., fol. 257-60; Id., in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, tom. vii., p. 170, et seq., pp. 271-2; Id., in Ilustracion Mej., tom. ii., p. 494; Id., in Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 21-30. Brasseur says that the temple built over a subterranean labyrinth was called Yohopehelichi Pezelao, 'supreme fortress of Pezelao.' Built under Toltec influence. Id., tom. i., pp. 304-5, tom. iii., p. 9. Sacked by the Aztecs about 1494, and the priests carried as captives to Mexico. Id., tom. iii., p. 358; Tylor's Anahuac, p. 139. Buildings of different age. Dupaix, 2d exped., pp. 34-5; Charnay, Ruines Amér., pp. 252-3, 265; Humboldt, Vues, tom. ii., p. 279.
[VII-67] Humboldt, Vues, tom. ii., pp. 284-5. 'Les palais funéraires de Mitla reproduisent en certains cas l'ordonnance des demeures chinoises.' Charnay, Ruines Amér., p. iii. The ruins of Mitla 'nous paraissent appartenir à la civilisation quichée, quoique postérieurs à ceux de l'Yucatan. La perfection de l'appareil, les parements verticaux des salles avec leurs épines de colonnes portant la charpente du comple, l'absence complète d'imitation de la construction de bois dans la décoration extérieure ou intérieure, l'ornementation obtenue seulement par l'assemblage des pierres sans sculpture, donnent aux édifices de Mitla un caractère particulier qui les distingue nettement de ceux de l'Yucatan et qui indiquerait aussi une date plus récente.' Viollet-le-Duc, in Id., pp. 100-1.
[VII-68] Lovato's report was published with two of the nine plates which originally accompanied it in the Museo Mex., tom. iii., p. 329-35, and, without the plates in Diccionario Univ., tom. ix., pp. 697-700. Müller, Reisen, tom. ii., pp. 251-4, gives an account which seems to have been made up mostly from Lovato's report, although he may have personally visited the ruins. A short description, also from the Museo Mex., may be found in Mayer's Mex. Aztec, vol. ii., p. 217, and Id., Observations, pp. 25-6.
[VII-69] Museo Mex., tom. i., p. 136. Lovato's exploration was made by the order of Gen. Leon, and the account furnished for publication by Sr J. M. Tornel. In describing the Temple, the three flights of stairs are said to have 10, 8, and 6 steps, respectively, which does not agree with the plate as copied above. Müller gives the number of small buildings, or dwellings, whose foundations are visible as 120 instead of 130; he also gives in his dimensions mètres instead of varas, which would increase them in English feet in the proportion of 92 to 109. He further states that the structures face the cardinal points.
[VII-70] Unda, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 2da época, tom. i., p. 30; Museo Mex., tom. i., p. 250.
[VII-71] Dupaix, 2d exped., p. 14, pl. xix., fig. 55; Kingsborough, vol. v., p. 244, vol. vi., p. 442, vol. iv., pl. xvii., fig. 55; Lenoir, in Antiq. Mex., tom. ii., div. i., p. 47.
[VII-72] Museo Mex., tom. i., pp. 249, 401, with plates of the rings and 7 stone relics.