result of this excavation are still at Cholula, and the fact is mentioned in several American works; my inference from the fact is the only novelty in the matter.
12 (Return) Cortéz's "Letters," Folsom's translation, p. 71.
13 (Return)
This word mosques Cortéz constantly makes use of, apparently to keep before the people of Spain the idea that he Was conducting a holy war.
14 (Return) This must have been the great fissure, and not the crater. I see no objection to this statement; for in this Cortéz had no motive to falsify, and it is the ordinary appearance of an active volcano.
15 (Return)
Bréva Reséña Histórica, by Gen. Tornel. Mexico, 1852. p. 135.
16 (Return)
Folsom's Letters of Cortéz, p. 49.
17 (Return) * Bernal Diaz. Lockhart's translation. London, 1844. Vol. i. p. 157.
18 (Return) "We buried our dead in one of the subterranean dwellings."—Diaz, vol. i. p. 152.