APPENDIX 
EXTRACT FROM HUMBOLDT’S NEW SPAIN—Vo l. II, 
Pages 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, & 119, ’20, ’21, ’22, ’23, & 171, 72, ’73, ’74, 
(No. 1.) 
THE only ancient monuments in the Mexican valley, which 
from their size or their masses can strike the eyes of a Euro¬ 
pean, are the remains of the two pyramids of San Juan de Teoti- 
huacan, situated to the north-east of the lake of Tezcuco, conse¬ 
crated to the sun and moon, which the Indians called Tonatiuh 
Ytzaqual, house of the sun, and Metzli Ytzaqual, house of the 
moon. According to the measurements made in 1803 by a young 
Mexican servant, doctor Oteyza, the first pyramid, which is the 
most southern, has in its present state a base of 208 metres* 
(645 feet) in length, and 55 metres (66 Mexican vara,f or 17i 
feetf) of perpendicular elevation. The second, the pyramid of 
the moon, is eleven metres§ (30 feet) lower, and its base is much 
* 682'feet English. Tram, 
f Velasquez found that the Mexican vara contained exactly 31 inch¬ 
es of the old pied du roi of Paris. The northern facade of the Hotel des 
invalides at Paris is only 600 feet French in length. 
$ 180 feet English. Trans , 
§ 36 feet English, Trm$ 
