ANCIENT MONUMENTS. 36L 
of these in its present state is a hundred and fifty 
feet in height, the other a hundred and forty-four. 
The interior is clay mixed with small stones, while 
the facings are of porous amygdaloid, and they are 
surrounded by a group of smaller elevation, dis- 
posed in a regular series. Another ancient object 
worthy of notice is the military entrenchment 
of Xochicaleo, to the S.S.W. of the town of Cuer- 
navaco, near Teteama. It consists of a hill 387 
feet high, surrounded by ditches or trenches, and 
divided into five terraces covered with masonry ; 
the whole forming a truncated pyramid, the four 
faces of which correspond to the four cardinal points. 
The porphyritic stones are adorned with hierogly- 
phical figures, among which are crocodiles, and men 
sitting cross-legged in the Asiatic manner. Other 
relics and places connected with the history of the 
conquest are shown to the stranger ; but of these it is 
unnecessary to speak. 
Our author estimates the population of Mexico 
as follows :— 
Inhabitants. 
We Bits Maironcatis. 6. 22082582 .02 100 sles dcpenee 2: , 
MMIC Me eco. Seva soaec seins a+ mechan 65,000 
Copper-coloured natives,................2.200:0+ 33,000 
Mestizoes, mixture of Whites and Indians,.. 26,500 
coe LED EP caseendelet gus I PS Bae a Rage 10,000 
137,000 
The annual number of births for a mean term of 
100 years is 5930, and that of deaths 5050; while 
in New Spain in general, the relation of the births 
to the population is as 1 to 17, and that of the deaths 
as 1 to 30, so that the mortality in the capital ap- 
pears much greater. The great conflux of sick per- 
sons to the hospitals, and on the other hand the 
