Note IX-87 — Chapter IX · ANTIQUITIES OF THE CENTRAL PLATEAUX. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Veytia, Hist. Ant. Mej., tom. i., pp. 239-40, 247-9; Gondra, in Prescott, Hist. Conq. Mex., tom. iii., p. 39; Gemelli Careri, p. 514. Bullock, Across Mex., p. 165, says he saw as late as 1864, on the summit of the House of the Moon, an altar of two blocks, covered with white plaster evidently recent, with an aperture in the centre of the upper block, supposed to have carried off the blood of victims.