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ers of the Building of the Holy Cathedral Church ; and although 

 there is no evidence of having perfected this request by letter, or 

 in any other legal manner, or by any decree of donation, the 

 delivery was made on the verbal order of His Excellency, to the 

 said Seniores, Commissioners, according to what has been com- 

 municated to me by the Superintendent, under the condition that 

 it should be set up in a public place, where it should be always 

 preserved as a valuable monument of Indian antiquity. 



But not only were there found these two stones in the space 

 which was repaved of the Grand Plaza, but other ancient monu- 

 ments were discovered, which were not made known to the public 

 like the preceding ones. Nothing was known about them until 

 this same Superintendent communicated to me the notice, giving 

 an order to the Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers, Don Miguel Cos- 

 tanzo, that he should inform me of all that it contained, which, in 

 fact, he did, in terms which were put afterward in a letter. This 

 new discovery confirmed all that I had predicted about the many 

 antiquities that would be found in the Grand Plaza. Since if thus, 

 in a short interval, and at but slight depth, one find such valuable 

 relics of remote Mexican antiquity, we may readily believe that, in 

 places not repaved, and in deeper excavations, others will be dis- 

 covered which will throw new revelations on their history. The 

 discovery was a sepulchre, that contained the bones of some ani- 

 mal that no one knew, notwithstanding the preservation of the 

 head, the teeth, and the fangs, characteristics which generally dis- 

 tinguish the species of quadrupeds. With them were found vari- 

 ous porringers, and other articles of clay, well manufactured ; sev- 

 eral large bells of metal, and other things of like nature. I was 

 not able to see any of them, because they were in the possession 

 of Captain Don Antonio Pineda, who actually resides in the City 

 of Guanajuato. 



I would hardly dare to say anything in regard to them, if it 

 were not from conclusions deduced from what I was informed by 

 the said Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers, and from the details he 

 gave me, which are as follows : — 



A Peon, named Juan de Dios Morales, in the month of Febru- 

 ary of this year, 1 79* ♦ near the middle of the square recently con- 



