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Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



be received with delight, retaining for myself the right, if you think 

 it proper, of causing it to be measured, weighed, drawn and en- 

 graved, in order that these details should be prepared to accompany 

 the informations which the said college may indicate or discover, 

 in regard to its origin. 



"God keep Your Excellency for many years. 

 "Mexico, 5th Sept., 1790." 



To this official document, Senor Virey, on the following day, the 

 6th, manifested his concurrence, as the following expressions de- 

 note : 



"I consent most gladly, that you may transport to the Royal and 

 Pontifical University, the stone-statue, found in making excava- 

 tions at the Plaza of this Palace, and that it shall be placed in a po- 

 sition in that edifice, which is considered to be most suitable. You 

 yourself (as you proposed) taking charge of the duties of causing 

 it to be measured, weighed, drawn and engraved, in order to pub- 

 lish these matters, in company with the information which that 

 illustrious college may possess, or may be able to point out, in 

 regard to its origin." 



Subsequently the Senor Rector made this same solicitation, and 

 by another note of the same September 22d, His Excellency advised 

 the Senor Superintendent, that he should impart to the said Rector 

 the authenticated notice of the find ; which was done in the follow- 

 ing official document. 



"In compliance with that which His Excellency, Senor Virey, 

 was pleased to inform me, in the official note of the 22d of the last 

 month, I transmit to you the testimony which affirms the finding 

 of the figure of stone, in appearance, heathen, encountered in the 

 excavations of the Grand Plaza, which, as soon as you can arrange 

 it, will be transported to the Royal University, for the purpose of 

 preserving it, and so that with the aid of the informations and 

 documents in the library, one can form an appropriate dissertation. 

 It being my duty when it is placed there, to have it to be weighed, 

 measured and engraved, in order that, with the accounts, may be 

 given to the public at the same time, the drawing, the weight and 

 the dimensions. God keep you, etc. 



"Mexico, 29th Oct., 1790." 



