Note V-35 — Chapter V · ANTIQUITIES OF YUCATAN.
Reading edition
M. Waldeck, Voy. Pitt., pl. xii., presents a drawing of four of these turtles. 'Covered with square blocks of stone.' Norman's Rambles in Yuc., p. 163. 'Each tortoise is in a square, and in the two external angles of each square is an Egg. The tortoise and the egg, are both National emblems.' Jones' Hist. Anc. Amer., p. 94.