Note 690 — Chapter XVIII · ARCHITECTURE AND DWELLINGS OF THE NAHUAS.

'Fueron hechas à mano, de Tierra, y Cespedes, y mui quajadas de Piedra; son anchas, que pueden pasar por cada vna de ellas, tres Carretas juntas, ò diez Hombres à Caballo.' Torquemada, Monarq. Ind., tom. i., p. 292; Las Casas, Hist. Apologética, MS., cap. l.; Prescott's Mex., vol. ii., p. 69; Carbajal Espinosa, Hist. Mex., tom. ii., p. 217. 'Tan ancha como dos lanzas jinetas.' Cortés, Cartas, p. 103. He mentions four causeways or entrances, but this must include either the branch which joins the southern road, or the aqueduct. 'Pueden ir por toda ello ocho de caballo á la par.' Id., p. 83. The view of Mexico published in the Luxemburg edition of Cortés, Cartas, points to four causeways besides the aqueduct, but little reliance can be placed on these fanciful cuts. Helps thinks, however, that there must have been more causeways than are mentioned by the conquerors. Span. Conq., vol. ii., pp. 456, 472. 'Entrano in essa per tre strade alte di pietra & di terra, ciascuna larga trenta passi.' Relatione fatta per vn gentil'huomo del Signor Fernando Cortese, in Ramusio, Navigationi, tom. iii., fol. 309. Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. iv., p. 4. 'Las puentes que tenian hechas de trecho á trecho.' Bernal Diaz, Hist. Conq., fol. 70.