APPENDIX. 
275 
We know not the ancient height of this extraordinary mo- 
Burnt nt. In its present state, the length of its base* is to its per¬ 
pendicular height as 8 : i; while in the throe great pyramids 
of Ghize, this proportion is as 1 ^ and -1 T 7 ^ to 1', or nearly as 
8 to 5 We have already observed that the houses of the sun 
and moon, or the pyramidal monuments of Teotihuacan north¬ 
east from Mexico, are surrounded with a system of small pyra¬ 
mids arranged symmetrically M- Grobert has published a ve¬ 
ry curious drawing of the equally regular disposition ,pf tjie 
* I shall here subjoin the true dimensions of the tihree great pyra¬ 
mids of Ghize, from the interesting work of M. Grobert. tl sli^ld place 
in adjoining columns the dimensions of the brisk pyramidal monuments 
of Sakhara, in Egypt, and of Teotihuacan and Cholula, in Mexico. The 
numbers are French feet. (A French foot == 1.066 English.} 
Height. 
Length 
of Base. 
Stone pyramids. 
Brick pyramids- 
Cheops. 
Cephren. 
Mycerinus. 
Of Five 
Stages in ’ 
Egypt, near 
Sakhara. < 
Of Four 
Me? 
Teotihu¬ 
acan : 
Stage's in 
dco.. 
Cholula.. 
44'8 . 
728 
.>98 
655 
162 
280 
150 
210 
171 
645 s 
172 
1355 
It is curious to observe. 1 That the people of Anahuac have had the 
intention of giving the height and the double base of the Tonatiuh Itzta- 
qual to the pyramids of Cholula; and, 2. That the greatest of all the 
Egyptian pyramids, that of Asychis, of which the base is 800 feet in 
length, is of brick and not of stone. ( Grobert , p. 6.) The cathedral of 
Strasbourg is eight feet, and the cross of St. Peter, at Home, 41 feet low¬ 
er than the Cheops. There are in Mexico pyramids of several stages, 
in the forests of Papantla, at a small elevation above the level of the sea, 
and in the plains of Cholula and Teotihuacan, at elevations surpassing 
those of our passes in the Alps. We are astonished to see in regions the 
most remote from one another, and under climates of the greatest diver¬ 
sity, man following the same model in his edifices, in his ornaments, in 
his habits, and even in the form of his political institutions. 
