[IX-13] The dimensions of base, height, and summit platform respectively, as given by different authorities, are as follows: 439×54×64¾ mètres, Humboldt; 530×66 varas, Nebel; 1069×204×165 feet, Mayer, according to a careful measurement by a U. S. official in 1847; 40 varas square by actual measurement! Dupaix; 1423×177×208 feet, Prescott; 1425×177×175 feet, Latrobe; 1301×162×177 feet, Poinsett; About 200 feet high, Tylor; 1310×205 feet, Wilson; 1335×172 feet, Foster's Pre-Hist. Races, p. 345; 1355×170 feet, Ampère, Promenade, tom. ii., pp. 374-80; 1388×170 feet, summit 13285 sq. feet, Heller, Reisen, pp. 131-2; said to cover an area of over 43 acres and to be 179 feet high, but it seems much smaller and higher. Evans' Our Sister Rep., pp. 428-32.
[IX-14] Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. i., pp. 155-6.
[IX-15] Heller, Reisen, pp. 131-2.
[IX-16] Humboldt, Vues, tom. i., pp. 127-8.
[IX-17] Foster, Pre-Hist. Races, p. 345, believes, on the contrary, that the pyramid was erected with the sole object of enshrining in an interior chamber of stone two corpses, showing that 'the industry of the great mass of the population was at the absolute command of the few.'
[IX-18] Wilson's Mex. and its Relig., pp. 95, 99. See a restoration of Cholula, by Mothes, in Armin, Heutige Mex., pp. 63, 68, 72.
[IX-19] Ampère, Promenade, tom. ii., pp. 373, 380. 'On découvre encore, du côté occidental, vis-a-vis du Cerro de Tecaxete et de Zapoteca, deux masses parfaitement prismatiques. L'une de ces masses porte aujourd'hui le nom d'Alcosac ou d'Istenenetl, l'autre celui du Cerro de la Cruz; la dernière, construite en pisé, n'est élevée que de 15 mètres.' Humboldt, Essai Pol., pp. 240-1.
[IX-20] Dupaix, 1st exped., pp. 10-11, pl. xiii.-v., fig. 14-16; Kingsborough, vol. v., p. 218; vol. vi., p. 427, vol. iv., pl. viii., fig. 17-18; Lenoir, in Antiq. Mex., tom. ii., div. i., pp. 23, 30.
[IX-21] Dupaix, 2d exped., p. 52.
[IX-22] Dupaix, 2d exped., pp. 52-3, pl. lx., lxii., fig. 118-19; Kingsborough, vol. v., p. 279, vol. vi., p. 464, vol. iv., pl. lii., fig. 120-1; Lenoir, in Antiq. Mex., p. 63.