1892 
I made the following measurements of the ruin on on© of its most 
perfect faces. It had the same plan on all sides. 
Cuernavaca 
(Morelos) 
The entire facade of this structure is covered with large, grotesque 
figures carved in high relief on the stone which is carefully dressed 
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and fitted with smooth faces and made of large blocks of lava. The 
stones of the top course are 24x28 and considerably longer than wide 
car thick. Stones S to 4 feet long are common, A number of photographs 
taken will show the character of the figures. In Humboldt * s travels, 
he gives a large plate supposed to represent one face of this ruin, but 
it is wholly fanciful and does not convey the slightest idea of its 
real character. There are said to be extensive subterranean chambers 
in the hill beneath the ruin, but ray guide misled me so that I failed 
to see them. 
On a hill about the same height as one with the temple and just 
east from latter, separated by a low gap from it, is another hill with 
a walled lane leading from the gap between the two hills up to its 
summit where there is a walled enclosure. This hill must have served 
as a fortification, I was feeling the effect of the intense sun at 
