HUMAN SACRIFICES, 
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The other mode of sacrifice, as I have before said, was the " Gladia- 
torial." 
GLADIATORIAL STONE, 
The stone, of which the foregoing plate is an outline, was, (like the 
Sacrificial Stone,) found in the great square of Mexico, where it still lies 
buried, for want of the trifling sum required to disinter it once more, and 
place it in the Museum. 
When the square was undergoing repairs, some years past, this monu- 
ment was discovered a short distance beneath the surface. Mr. Gondra 
endeavored to have it removed, but the Government refused to incur the 
expense ; and its dimensions, as he tells me, being exactly those of the 
Sacrificial Stone, viz. nine feet by three, he declined undertaking it on 
his own account. Yet, anxious to preserve, if possible, some record of 
the carving with which it was covered, (especially as that carving was 
painted with yellow, red, green, crimson, and black, and the colors still 
