Note 799 — Chapter XVIII · ARCHITECTURE AND DWELLINGS OF THE NAHUAS.
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The authorities on the temple of Mexico are: Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 70-2; Relatione fatta per vn gentil'huomo del Signor Fernando Cortese, in Ramusio, Navigationi, tom. iii., fol. 307, 309, and in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 384-5, 394-5, with cuts; Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 186, tom. ii., pp. 140-56; Sahagun, Hist. Gen., tom. i., lib. ii., pp. 197-211; Cortés, Cartas, p. 106; Gomara, Conq. Mex., fol. 118-22; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. xlix., li., cxxiv.; Vetancvrt, Teatro Mex., pt ii., p. 37; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. i., pp. 257-8, tom. ii., pp. 25-32, 46-8, with cuts made up from the various descriptions of Diaz and others; see his remarks, p. 26. Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 333-5; this author mixes up the descriptions of the chief temple and the Tzompantli, and represents this account as that of Huitzilopochtli's sanctuary; Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vii., cap. xvii., xviii.; Motolinia, Hist. Indios, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 63-5; Ortega, in Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. iii., pp. 279-89; Tezozomoc, Hist. Mex., tom. i., pp. 151-3, 193; Ixtlilxochitl, Hist. Chich., in Kingsborough's Mex. Antiq., vol. ix., p. 245; Oviedo, Hist. Gen., tom. iii., pp. 302-3, 502-3; Dávila Padilla, Hist. Fvnd. Mex., p. 75; Solis, Hist. Conq. Mex., tom. i., pp. 394-98; Montanus, Nieuwe Weereld, p. 242; West-Indische Spieghel, p. 248; Humboldt, Essai Pol., tom. i., p. 187; Klemm, Cultur-Geschichte, tom. v., pp. 154-5; Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iii., pp. 659-65; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. i., p. 664, tom. ii., pp. 226-35, with cuts; Warden, Recherches, p. 66; Prescott's Mex., vol. ii., pp. 142-5.