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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 
* See my Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, 
pages 169, 187, 289. 
