Note 253 — PART III. GRAPHIC SYSTEMS AND LITERATURE. (continued 2)

Father Sotomayor, in the newspaper account above referred to, states that tradition assigned the inscription to the time of Cortes’ march to the City of Mexico; a date which he quite properly ridicules as impossible. The vicinity of Orizaba was, moreover, not a part of the Mexican State until some time after the middle of the 15th century. See Bandelier, Archæological Tour in Mexico, pp. 22, sqq.