Note 717 — Chapter XVIII · ARCHITECTURE AND DWELLINGS OF THE NAHUAS.
Reading edition
Cortés, Cartas, p. 171. See Warden, Recherches, pp. 67-8, on fortifications. In Michoacan, some towns had walls of planks two fathoms high and one broad. Herrera, Hist. Gen., dec. iii., lib. iii., cap. iii.