[IX-72] Bath 12 by 8 feet, with well in centre 5 feet in diameter and 4 feet deep, surrounded by a parapet 2½ feet high, 'with a throne or chair, such as is represented in ancient pictures to have been used by the kings.' Bullock's Mexico, pp. 390-3. 'His majesty used to spend his afternoons here on the shady side of the hill, apparently sitting up to his middle in water like a frog, if one may judge by the height of the little seat in the bath.' Tylor's Anahuac, pp. 152-3; Beaufoy's Mex. Illustr., pp. 194-5; Id., in Antiq. Mex., tom. ii., div. ii., p. 70. The aqueduct 'is a work very nearly or quite equal in the labor required for its construction to the Croton Aqueduct.' Thompson's Mex., pp. 143-6; Mayer's Mex. Aztec, etc., vol. ii., pp. 276-8; Id., Mex. as it Was, pp. 86, 233-4, with the cut copied, another of the aqueduct, and a third representing an idol called the 'god of silence;' Ward's Mexico, vol. ii., pp. 296-7; Prescott's Mex., vol. i., pp. 182-4; Löwenstern, Mexique, pp. 252-3; Vigne's Travels, vol. i., p. 27; Frost's Pict. Hist. Mex., pp. 54-8; Id., Great Cities, pp. 302-4.
[IX-73] Tylor's Anahuac, pp. 155-6; Mayer's Mex. Aztec, etc., vol. ii., pp. 278-9; Latrobe's Rambler, pp. 190-1.
[IX-74] Latrobe's Rambler, p. 192.
[IX-75] Bullock's Mexico, pp. 395-9. This author also speaks of a 'broad covered way between two huge walls which terminate near a river,' on the road to Tezcuco. Beaufoy's Mex. Illustr., pp. 196-7, cut of idol; Latrobe's Rambler, pp. 184-5; Tylor's Anahuac, pp. 153-4, with cut of bridge; Ward's Mexico, vol. ii., p. 296; Mexico, Anales del Ministerio de Fomento, 1854, tom. i., p. 615; Conder's Mex. Guat., vol. i., p. 335; Aubin, in Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., p. 355; Bradford's Amer. Antiq., pp. 78, 85; Beaufoy, in Antiq. Mex., tom. ii., div. ii., pp. 69-70.
[IX-76] Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., pp. 148-51.
[IX-77] Almaraz, Apuntes sobre las Pirámides de San Juan Teotihuacan, in Id., Mem. de los Trabajos ejecutados por la Comision de Pachuca, 1864, pp. 349-58. Linares, Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 3ra época, tom. i., pp. 103-5, wrote an account which seems to be made up from the preceding. See also: Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 34-5; Humboldt, Essai Pol., tom. i., pp. 187-9; Id., Vues, tom. i., pp. 100-2; Id., in Antiq. Mex., tom. i., div. ii., pp. 11-12; Bullock's Mexico, pp. 411-18, with pl.; Beaufoy's Mex. Illustr., pp. 189-93, with cut; Ward's Mexico, vol. ii., pp. 214-15, 295; Latrobe's Rambler, pp. 194-217; Mayer's Mex. Aztec, etc., vol. ii., p. 279; Id., in Schoolcraft's Arch., vol. vi., p. 583; Thompson's Mex., pp. 139-43; Tylor's Anahuac, pp. 96, 141-4; García, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, tom. viii., pp. 198-200. The preceding authorities are arranged chronologically: the following are additional references:—Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1831, tom. li., pp. 238-9; Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. i., pp. 239-40, 247-9; Fossey, Mexique, pp. 315-16; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., pp. 15, 148-51, 197-8; Gemelli Careri, in Churchill's Col. Voyages, vol. iv., p. 514; Bullock's Across Mex., pp. 165-6; Löwenstern, Mexique, pp. 248-50, 272-81; Heller, Reisen, p. 157; Tudor's Nar., vol. ii., pp. 277-9; Gondra, in Prescott, Hist. Conq. Mex., tom. iii., pp. 38-41; Chevalier, Mexique, p. 51; Nebel, Viaje, plates of terra-cotta heads; Amer. Antiq. Soc., Transact., vol. i., pp. 254-5; Bradford's Amer. Antiq., pp. 80-1; Conder's Mex. Guat., vol. i., pp. 336-9; Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mex., vol. i., pp. 236-7; Hassel, Mex. Guat., p. 131; Müller, Amerikanische Urreligionen, p. 459; Prichard's Nat. Hist. Man, vol. ii., p. 509; Delafield's Antiq. Amer., pp. 56-7; Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 186; McCulloh's Researches in Amer., pp. 252-3; García y Cubas, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 2da época, tom. i., p. 37; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., p. 155; Frost's Pict. Hist. Mex., pp. 53-4; Id., Great Cities, pp. 298-303; Lafond, Voyages, tom. i., pp. 138-9; Larenaudière, Mex. et Guat., pp. 24, 44-5; Malte-Brun, Précis de la Géog., tom. vi., p. 460; Willson's Amer. Hist., p. 598; Mexico, Anales del Ministerio de Fomento, 1854, tom. i., pp. 530-1, 719; Baril, Mexique, p. 70; Mühlenpfordt, Mejico, tom. ii., pt. ii., p. 269; Beaufoy, in Antiq. Mex., tom. ii., div. ii., pp. 69-70; Shepard's Land of the Aztecs, pp. 103-5; Vigne's Travels, vol. i., p. 28; Album Mex., tom. i., pp. 117-18.
[IX-78] These are the dimensions given by Almaraz, except those of the summit platform, which are only an estimate by Beaufoy. The following are the dimensions as given by different authors: 130 by 156 by 42 mètres. Almaraz; 44 mètres high. Humboldt, according to measurements of Sr Oteyza; 360 by 480 by 150 feet. Gemelli Careri; —— by 645 by 170 feet. Heller; 130 by 156 by 44 mètres. Linares. Others take the dimensions generally from Humboldt.
[IX-79] 'On les prendrait pour ces turgescences terrestres qu'on trouve dans les lieux jadis bouleversés par les feux souterrains.' Fossey, Mexique, p. 315. Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. i., pp. 247-9, says the pyramid was round instead of rectangular, and that it had three terraces, although in Boturini's time no traces of them remained. 'It required a particular position whence to behold them, united with some little faith, in order to discover the pyramidal form at all.' Tudor's Nar., vol. ii., p. 277. 'To say the truth, it was nothing but a heap of earth made in steps like the pyramids of Egypt; only that these are of stone.' Gemelli Careri, in Churchill's Col. Voyages, vol. iv., p. 514. 'Ils formoient quatre assises, dont on ne reconnoit aujourd'hui que trois.' 'Un escalier construit en grandes pierres de taille, conduisoit jadis à leur cime.' 'Chacune des quatres assises principales étoit subdivisée en petits gradins d'un mètre de haut, dont on distingue encore les arrêtes.' Humboldt, Essai Pol., tom. i., p. 188. Mayer, Mex. as it Was, p. 223, says that three stories are yet distinctly visible. 'The line from base to summit was broken by three terraces, or perhaps four, running completely round them.' Tylor's Anahuac, pp. 142-3.
[IX-80] 'Leur noyau est d'argile mêlée de petites pierres: il est revêtu d'un mur épais de tezontli ou amygdaloïde poreuse.' Humboldt, Vues, tom. i., pp. 101-2. 'On y reconnoît, en outre, des traces d'une couche de chaux qui enduit les pierres par dehors.' Id., Essai Pol., tom. i., p. 157. 'In many places, I discovered the remains of the coating of cement with which they were incrusted in the days of their perfection.' Mayer's Mex. as it Was, p. 223. 'Arcilla y piedras,' covered with a conglomerate of tetzontli and mud, and a coating of polished lime, which has a blue tint. Linares, in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 3ra época, tom. i., pp. 103-5. 'En argile ... avec révêtement en pierre.' Chevalier, Mexique, p. 50. 'No trace of regular stone work or masonry of any kind.' Bullock's Across Mex., p. 165. Originally covered with a white cement bearing inscriptions. Glennie, according to Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1831, tom. li., pp. 238-9. Built of clay and stone. Heller, Reisen, p. 157. Salmon-colored Stucco. Latrobe. Unhewn stones of all shapes and sizes. Thompson. Stones and pebbles, faced with porous stone. García. Adobes, stones, clay, and mortar, with a casing of hewn stone and smooth stucco. Tylor. A conglomerate of common volcanic stones and mud mortar with the faces smoothed. Beaufoy. Masses of falling stone and masonry, red cement, 8 or 10 inches thick, of lime and pebbles. Bullock. 'It is true, that on many parts of the ascent masses of stone and other materials, strongly cemented together, announce the devices and workmanship of man; but on penetrating this exterior coating nothing further was perceptible than a natural structure of earth' like any natural hill with many loose stones. An American engineer who had made excavations confirmed the idea that the pyramids were natural, although artificially shaped. Tudor's Nar., vol. ii., p. 278.
[IX-81] Humboldt's dimensions, according to Oteyza's measurements are, 208 mètres (682 feet) long and 55 mètres (180 feet) high. 645 feet square, Bullock; 480 by 600 feet, Beaufoy; 182 feet square, García; 221 feet high, Mayer; 221 feet high, Thompson. Round, 297 varas in diameter, 270 varas (745 feet!) high, Veytia, according to Boturini's measurements; 60 mètres high, Löwenstern; 720 by 480 by 185 feet, Gemelli Careri.