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describes it as a cone, made by the hands of 

 man, and long covered with vegetation. This 

 is a very remarkable monument, in which the 

 temple is only an incidental decoration ; it serves, 

 if we may use the expression, as an intermediary 

 step between the pyramids of Sakhara and the 

 Mexican teocallis *. 

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* See my Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, 

 pages 169, 187, 289. 



