[20]. Sahagun (Bernardino de), Historia de la N. España, Ed. Carlos M. de Bustamante, 3 Vol., Mexico, 1830.
[21]. The following notice of three prehistoric nails is given for what it is worth. Torquemada, Lib. VI., Cap. 23: Under the reign of Nezahualpilli of Tezcuco, the statue of the God of Rain, Tlaloc, having been found to be timeworn and corroded, a new one was made and located on the mountain of Matlalcueye, the ancient site of this statue. “When this idol of Tlaloc was replaced by the new one, it happened that one of its arms broke off. They put it on again and fastened it with three gold nails. Later, when the new faith was introduced in their countries, this diabolical image was brought down from the hills, at the time of the first Bishop Zummaraga, and was broken to pieces in his presence, but not before removing the three gold nails spoken of.”
[22]. Dupaix, Antiquités Mexicaines, Paris, 1834, Vol. II., Planche 26, fig. 75, and text in Vol. I., page 21, No. 75.
[23]. With our first glance at the picture of Tepozcolula we were induced to believe that we had found therein a representation of the instrument which Petrus Martyr called a “dolabra,” and Sahagun “azuela.” The translation of the one is, pick or hoe, and of the other, cooper’s adze. Both of these, therefore, would have been instruments in which the blade and its edge are at right angles to their handle, and the management of which requires both hands of the workman. This supposition is refuted by the picture of the carpenter (cut [10]), who is distinctly seen to hold the piece of wood in the left and the tool in his right hand.
[24]. Dupaix, l. c., Vol. II., Planche 26, fig. 74, and text Vol. I., page 21.
[25]. Torquemada, Mon. Ind., Lib.—, Chap.—: “They also used certain copper coins, almost in the shape of a Greek Tau, Τ, its width about three or four fingers. It was a thin piece of plate of an uncertain size, and contained much gold.” Clavigero, The History of Mexico, Ed. Ch. Cullen, London, 1807, Vol. VII., Sect. 36, page 386, evidently copies the sentence when he says: “Their fourth species of money, which most resembled coined money, was made of pieces of copper, in the form of a T, and was employed in purchases of little value.”
[26]. S. Salisbury, Jr., Esq.
[27]. Col. John D. Washburn.
[28]. The Hon. Isaac Davis.
[29]. The Palenque Tablet, in the U. S. National Museum. By Charles Rau, 1879.