Note 16 — MEXICAN COPPER TOOLS.
Stephen Salisbury translation
See Bernal Diaz, Chap. 39.
Petrus Martyr de Angleria, English edition of Eden, Islands of the West Indies, page 169: “Circumference of xxviii spans (spithamarum 28).”
Torquemada Mon. Ind., Lib. IV., Cap. 17.
Three letters, on Cortes’ landing in Yucatan, edited by Fredric Muller, Amsterdam, 1871. (1) Their width being seven spans, (2) larger than a wagon’s wheel, and made as if beaten out of white iron. (3) Two wheels, the one of gold and weighing 30,000 castellanos, the other of silver, weighing 50 mark. These pieces are as large as a millstone.