Note VIII-40 — Chapter VIII · ANTIQUITIES OF VERA CRUZ.
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Nebel, Viage Pintoresco. The drawing is geometric rather than in perspective, and the author's descriptive text in a few details fails to agree exactly with it. José M. Bausa gives a slight description in Soc. Mex. Geog., Boletin, tom. v., p. 411, without stating the source of his information. He locates the ruin 2½ leagues south-west of the pueblo. This author states that Carlos M. Bustamante published a good account of the ruin in 1828, in his Revoltijo de Nopalitos. Other accounts of Papantla made up from the preceding sources, are as follows:—Mayer's Mex. Aztec, vol. ii., pp. 196-7, with cut after Nebel; Id., Mex. as it Was, pp. 248-9; Id., in Schoolcraft's Arch., vol. vi., p. 583, pl. xi.; Baldwin's Anc. Amer., pp. 91-2; Conder's Mex. Guat., tom. i., p. 227; Fossey, Mex., pp. 317-18; Hassel, Mex. Guat., pp. 238-9; Larenaudière, Mex. Guat., p. 45; De Bercy, Travels, tom. ii., p. 237; Bradford's Amer. Antiq., pp. 79-80; Mühlenpfordt, Mejico, tom. ii., p. 88; Mexicanische Zustände, p. 142; Bingley's Trav., pp. 259-60; Amer. Antiq. Soc., Transact., vol. i., p. 256; Armin, Heutige Mex., pp. 96-7, with cut; Malte-Brun, Précis de la Géog., tom. vi., p. 462; Müller, Amerikanische Urreligionen, p. 459; Priest's Amer. Antiq., pp. 276-8; Wappäus, Geog. u. Stat., p. 154; Wilson's Mex. and its Religion, pp. 246-7.