Note 803 — Chapter XVIII · ARCHITECTURE AND DWELLINGS OF THE NAHUAS.
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Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. cxxiv.; Humboldt, Essai Pol., tom. i., pp. 239-40; Clavigero, Storia Ant. del Messico, tom. ii., pp. 33-4. Bernal Diaz counted 120 steps, which scarcely agrees with the height of the pyramid. Hist. Conq., fol. 72. Acosta, Hist. de las Ynd., pp. 390-1, mentions 60 steps only. 'Alto bien mas de quarenta estados: fue hecho de Adove, y Piedra.' Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 281. Montanus adds that on the summit stood a square structure, supported by 28 pillars, within which were thousands of skulls; he mentions two chapels. Nieuwe Weereld, p. 236. It had 1508 steps; in the wall was a large diamond. West-Indische Spieghel, p. 238.