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east from the capital, in a plain that bears the 

 name of Micoatl, or the Path of the Dead. 

 There are two large pyramids dedicated to the 

 Sun (Tonatiuh), and to the Moon (Meztli) ; 

 and these are surrounded by several hundreds of 

 small pyramids, which form streets in exact 

 lines from north to south, and from east to west. 

 Of these two great teocallis, one is fifty-five, the 

 other forty-four metres in perpendicular height. 

 The basis of the first is two hundred and eight 

 metres in length; whence it results, that the 

 Tonatiuh Yztaqual, according to Mr. Oteyza's 

 measurement, made in 1803, is higher than the 

 Mycerinus, or third of the three gTeat pyramids 

 of Geeza in Egypt, and the length of its base 

 nearly equal to that of the Cephren. The small 

 pyramids, which surround the great houses of 

 the Sun and the Moon, are scarcely nine or ten 

 metres high ; and served, according to the tra- 

 dition of the natives, as burial places for the 

 chiefs of the tribes. Around the Cheops and 

 the Mycerinus in Egypt, there are eight small 

 pyramids, placed with symmetry, and parallel 

 to the fronts of the greater. The two teocallis of 

 Teotihuacan had four principal stories, each of 

 which was subdivided into steps, the edges of 

 which are still to be distinguished. The 

 nucleus is composed of clay mixed with small 

 stones, and it is encased by a thick wall of te- 



