1892 
Cuernavaca 
(Morelos) 
the builders of* the temple on the hill* They now occupy grass-thatched 
huts with curious clay storehouses for corn, built like inverted ovens 
and thatched with steep conical straw roofs. 
The sides of the hill on whose top the temple is built are terraced 
with the slopes from one terrace to the other cut dov/n to a steep regu¬ 
lar incline and faeed with a wall of irregular stones. Some of the 
upper terraces at least were floored by a hard smooth mortar finish, 
as shown in one place where it has been bared. The temple is c.i extreme 
top of the hill commanding a magnificent view. It is a rectangular 
structure enclosed in the centre of a levelled and paved court surround¬ 
ed by the debris of an old stone wall. 
The temple measures 57 feet along its east and west faces, midway 
from ground to top of standing wall. The north and south faces are 
65 feet long. On top two pits in the centre with a cross wall between 
show that the temple had two interior rooms at base. 
The only entrance to temple was by means of a broad stone stairway 
leading to summit. The steps are 15 inches high and 12 inches broad. 
This stairway occupies all of west face except for 13 feet at each end. 
The low surrounding wall of nibble that enclosed the court was only a 
few yards from the temple wall and was built partly of hewn blocks and 
partly of nibble. It had an entrance or gateway in front of the stairs 
leading to top of temple. 
The upper part of the temple wall has been partly destroyed to 
furnish material for a dam at ft reservoir built for irrigating below 
the hill. This vandalism is not permitted by the present government, 
and I was informed that a local official is charged with the protection 
of the ruin. This protection is a nominal affair however, sinoe several 
large cacti and young trees growing on the summit are forcing their 
roots between the blocks of stone and tumbling them down. 
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