Note 1022 — Chapter III · (continued 2)

The early writers make little mention of the place except as one of the halting-places of the Aztec migration. Torquemada has something to say (quoted in Soc. Mex. Geog. Bol., 2º, iii. 278, with the earliest of the modern accounts by Manuel Gutierrez, in 1805). Capt. G. F. Lyon (Journal of a residence and tour in Mexico, London, 1828) visited the ruins in 1828. Pedro Rivera in 1830 described them in Márcos de Esparza’s Informe presentado al Gobierno (Zacatecas, 1830,—also in Museo Méxicano, i. 185, 1843). The plan in Nebel’s Viaje (copied in Bancroft, iv. 582) was made for Governor García, by Berghes, a German engineer, in 1831, who at the time was accompanied by J. Burkart (Aufenthalt und Reisen in Mexico, Stuttgart, 1836), who gives a plan of fewer details. Bancroft (iv. 579) thinks Nebel’s views of the ruins the only ones ever published, and he enumerates various second-hand writers (iv. 579).