Note VIII-18 — Chapter VIII · ANTIQUITIES OF VERA CRUZ.

Iberri, in Museo Mex., tom. iii., p. 23. Gondra's account in Mosaico Mex., tom. ii., pp. 368-72, with two views and a plan. Sartorius' description in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, 2da época, tom. i., pp. 821-2, tom. ii., p. 148, with two views apparently the same as by Gondra, an additional side and front view of a pyramid, and a plan which bears no likeness to Gondra's, representing perhaps a different part of the ruins. According to this author the ruins were first made known in 1829 or 1830. The two accounts are very perplexing to the student, sometimes resembling each other so closely that one is ready to believe that Sartorius was the explorer from whom Gondra obtained his information and drawings, in other parts so different as to indicate that different ruins are referred to. I am inclined to believe that Gondra's information did in part refer to some other ruin in the same region. Gondra's account is also printed in Diccionario Univ. Geog., tom. ix., pp. 565-8. Brief mention in Rivera, Hist. Jalapa, Mex. 1869, tom. i., pp. 389-90.