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1892 
60 ft* broad around these mounds and the ground made very level. This 
Tenohitlan 
(Jalisco) 
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June 
Ruins near 
Tenchitl&n 
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circle etas bordered by a low rough stone wall with openings as marked 
in the following rough diagram. These rings were separated by a 
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passageway cleared of stores, as ms a space fronting the circles on 
the S and SI. 
I was told in town that a couple of brothers spent much money in 
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having an excavation made is the largest cone, I saw that a hole 
had been dug fern summit down to base and the material thrown out 
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through & out or open breech which out the east side down half way. 
At the bottom of the excavation, which ms made for treasure, were 
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found several clay Images like those found in burial places and also 
an obsidian lance-head. I bought a few articles in town, includ¬ 
ing a bowl and few obsidian articles. 
In the circles surrounding these cones are planted tnagueys for 
tequila, and all the hillside is covered with suae, and the cones 
and surrounding walls arc grown over with bushes and snail trees. 
The people her© tell me that they find the deposits of idols, 
etc., usually under small heaps of stones at a depth of 3 or 4 ft. 
These three mounds or cones are probably simply larger forms of the 
same thing, covering the remains of notable persons. 
The town of Tenohitlan is remarkable for the evidences it con- 
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