Note V-93 — Chapter V · ANTIQUITIES OF YUCATAN. (continued 2)

'They founde auncient towers there, and the ruines of such as hadde beene broken downe and destroyed, seeming very auncient: but one aboue the rest, whereto they ascended by 18 steppes or staires, as they ascende to famous, and renowned temples.' Peter Martyr, dec. iv., lib. iii. Grijalva found a tower 'xviii gradi de altura et tutta massiza al pede et tenia a torno clxxx piedi, et incima de essa era una torre piccola la quale era de statura de homini doi uno sopra laltro.' Diaz, Itinerario, in Icazbalceta, Col. de Doc., tom. i., pp. 284, 287. See also the authorities referred to in note 89. Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., pp. 362-80, with cut; Larenaudière, Mex. et Guat., p. 321; Gondra, in Album Mex., tom. i., p. 239; Mayer's Mex., Aztec, etc., vol. ii., p. 169; Baril, Mexique, p. 129; Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 145.