[VIII-19] Respecting the first narrow pass, the oval table, and the ditch, Sartorius says nothing. He mentions such a ditch, however, in connection with the ruins of Tlacotepec, as we shall see. It is quite possible that the features mentioned do not belong to Centla at all.
[VIII-20] 10 varas according to Sartorius; Gondra says 15.
[VIII-21] Copied from Sartorius, with the addition of the shading only.
[VIII-22] The views given by Gondra and Sartorius are of the pyramid A, from the east, and of the terrace walls at B, from the west. The latter also gives a view of the small pyramid b, from the north. The plan given by Gondra bears no resemblance to the other. It may represent ruins in other parts of the plateau; it may be a faulty representation made up from the explorer's description of the works that have been described; or, what is, I think, more probable, it may refer to some other group of ruins in the vicinity. It represents a collection of pyramids and buildings, bounded on both the east and west by walls, one of which has an entrance close to the brink of the precipice, while the other had no opening till one was made by the modern settlers.
[VIII-23] 'Ochenta varas en cuadro.' Perhaps it should read feet instead of varas. The plate makes the front slightly over 24 varas.
[VIII-24] Dupaix, 1st exped., pp. 8-9, pl. ix-xi., fig. 9-12; Kingsborough, vol. v., pp. 215-16, vol. vi., pp. 425-6, vol. iv., pl. v-vi., fig. 11-15. The skull is mentioned and sketched only in Kingsborough's edition. Lenoir, pp. 23, 29. Slight mention of these ruins from Dupaix, in Mosaico Mex., tom. ii., pp. 373-4; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., p. 157; Warden, in Antiq. Mex., tom. ii., pp. 67-8.
[VIII-25] Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 2da época, tom. i., p. 821.
[VIII-26] Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., p. 150; Bradford's Amer. Antiq., p. 104.
[VIII-27] Museo Mex., tom. iii., p. 23.
[VIII-28] Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 2da época, tom. i., p. 822; Mosaico Mex., tom. ii., pp. 368, 372; Smithsonian Rept., 1870, p. 374.