Note 711 — Chapter XVIII · ARCHITECTURE AND DWELLINGS OF THE NAHUAS.
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Cortés says 'piedra seca.' Cartas, p. 60, but this is contradicted by Bernal Diaz, who found it to be of stone and mortar. Hist. Conq., fol. 43. 'Sin mezcla de cal ni barro.' Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. ii., lib. vi., cap. iv.