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civilization, have built walls, which separate 
whole provinces. 
The summit of the hill of Xochicalco is an 
oblong platform, seventy-two metres from north 
to south, and ninety-six from east to west. This 
platform is encircled by a wall of hewn stone, 
more than two metres high, which served as a 
defence for the combatants. In the centre of 
this spacious military square, we find the re- 
mains of a pyramidical monument, which had 
five stories, the form of which resembled the teo- 
callis we have already described. The first story 
only has been preserved, and it is that which is 
represented in the ninth plate. The owners of a 
sugar house near the spot demolished like barba- 
rians the pyramid, and employed the stones to 
build their ovens. The Indians of Tetlama 
assert, that the five stories still existed in 1750 ; 
and from the dimensions of the first story we may 
conjecture, that the edifice was twenty metres 
high. Its faces are exactly fronting the four 
cardinal points. The base of the edifice is 20*7 
metres in length, and 17*4 in breadth. It is 
very remarkable, that no vestige of a staircase 
can be discovered leading to the top of the pyra- 
mid, where formerly it is asserted there was a 
stone seat {ximotlalli)^ ornamented with hiero- 
glyphics. 
Travellers, who examine attentively this work 
of the native tribes of America, cannot fail to be 
