Note 28 — Chapter IV · PALACES AND HOUSEHOLDS OF THE NAHUA KINGS.
Reading edition
Prescott, Mex., vol. i., p. 177, makes in both cases the 'estado' the same measure as the 'vara,' that is three feet, a clumsy error certainly, when translating such a sentence as this: 'que tenia de grueso dos varas, y de alto tres estados.'