Note 1021 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

Bancroft’s numerous references make a foot-note (iv. 530). He adds a plan from Almaraz, and says that the description of Linares (Soc. Mex. Geog. Boletin, 30, i. 103) is mainly drawn from Almaraz. It is believed, but not absolutely proven, that the mounds were natural ones, artificially shaped (Bandelier, 44). The extent of the ruins is very great, and it is a current belief that the city in its prime must have been very large. The whole region is exceptionally rich in fragmentary and small relics, like pottery, obsidian implements, and terra-cotta heads. Cf. for these last, Lond. Geog. Soc. Journal, vii. 10; Thompson’s Mexico, 140; Nebel, Viaje; Mayer’s Mexico as it was, 227 (as cited in Bancroft, iv. 542); and later publications like T. U. Brocklehurst’s Mexico to-day (Lond., 1883), and Zelia Nuttall’s “Terra Cotta Heads from Teotihuacan,” in the Amer. Journal of Archæology (June and Sept. 1886), ii. 157, 318.