...Motolinia, an early Spanish writer, in reference to the mode of constructing the Mexican mounds of worship : "In the most prominent part of this court there stood...wall of stone ; and as it rose they made it incline inward, and at every fathom and a half or two fathoms of height they made a stage. Thus there was a...

...pre-Aztec era. Motolii a, an early Spanish writer, describes the construction of Mexican mounds of worship as follows: In the most prominent part of this court...wall of stone ; and as it rose they made it incline inward, and at every fathom and a half or two fathoms of height they made a stage. Thus there was a...

...pre-Aztec era. Motolina, an early Spanish writer, describes the construction of Mexican mounds of worship as follows : In the most prominent part of this court...wall of stone ; and as it rose they made it incline inward, and at every fathom and a half or two fathoms of height they made a stage. Thus there was a...

...pre-Aztec era. Motolira, an early Spanish writer, describes the construction of Mexican mounds of worship as follows : In the most prominent part of this court...this, and found it to be forty fathoms from corner to comer. This they filled up solid, stuffing it within with stone, clay, adobe, or wellpounded earth,...

...Motolinia, an early Spanish writer, in reference to the mode of constructing the Mexican mounds of worship : "In the most prominent part of this court there stood...wall of stone ; and as it rose they made it incline inward, and at every fathom and a half or two fathoms of height they made a stage. Thus there was a...

...Yucatan.1 It may be interesting to compare what one of the earliest missionaries, the celebrated Motolim'a, says of the mode of construction of Mexican mounds...it rose they made it incline inwards, and at every fethom and a half or two fathoms of height they made a stage. Thus there was a broad foundation, and...