At about two leagues from Tezeueo, is a sprit called Bano de .Nlontezu ma, Montezurna's Bath. on the sunnnit of a conical hill called Tescosingo. We scrambled with great difficulty," observes Mr. Bullock," through bushes and over loose stones, which were in great quantities on all sides, and at last perceived that we were on the ruins of a very large build ing, the cemented stones in some places covered with stucco, and forming walks and terraces, but munch encumbered with earth fallen from above, and overgrown with a wood of nopal, which made it difficult to ascend." Ile discovered the bath on one of the sides of the hill. " It was cut in the solid rock, and standing out like a martin's nest from the side of a house. It is not only an extraordinary bath, hut still more extraordinarily placed. It is a beautiful basin, about 1:2 feet long by S wide, having a well about 5 feet .1 deep in the centre, surrounded by a parapet or ruin :2 feet 6 inches high, with a throne or chair such as is represented in ancient pictures to have been used by the kings. There are steps to descend into the basin or bath, the whole cut out of living porphyry reek, with the utmost mathematical precision, and polished in the most beautiful manner." The mountains appear to have been covered with palaces, temples, baths, hanging gardens, &e.; and Mr. Bullock was informed that he had seen but the commencement of the wonders of the place.
About two miles from Tezenco, is the Indian village of Huexotla. Bullock observed, on his approach, several small pyramids of alternate layers of clay and intburnt brick, one of them had evidently an entrance in the centre. which was discovered by part of it having fallen in ; within the town were the foundations of a palace, and two large reser voirs. with which it was supplied with water, remain entire. The ancient wall of the town, almost 30 feet high and very thick, extends to a considerable distance. It is singularly constructed, being divided into five unequal parts. The broadest division is built of large oval stones, with ends standing out, so as to give it the appearance of having been formed of human sculls. and it is divided from the rest by a projecting cornice. Beyond the walls, on the road to Tezeueo, a broad covered-way runs between two huge walls terminating near a river, which appears to have been one of the entrances to the town. Over the bed of the river, which is now dry, there is a remarkable bridge, with a pointed arch nearly 40 feet high, supported on one side by a mass of masonry in a pyramidal shape. It is ascribed to the ancient Mexicans; hut it' constructed on the principle of the arch, it must have been the work of European architects.
Mr. Bullock visited the celebrated pyramids of San Juan di Teotilmacan. " As we approached them," he says, " the square and perfect form of the largest became at every step more and more visibly disthict, and the terraces could now be counted. We rode first to the lesser, which is the most dilapidated of the two, and ascended to the top, over masses of ffillen stone and ruins of masonry, with less difficulty than we expected. On the summit are the remains of an ancient
building, 47 feet long and 14 wide; the walls are principally of unhewn stone. 3 feet thick and S fbet high; the entrance at the south end, with three windows on each side, and on the north end it appears to have been about a third of its length ; we soon arrived at the foot of the largest pyramid, and began to ascend. It was less difficult than we expected, though, the whole way up, lime and cement are mixed with fallen stones. The terraces are perfectly visible, particularly the second, which is about 3S feet wide, covered with a coat of red cement S or 10 inches thick, composed of small pebble-stones and lime. In many places as you ascend, the nepal trees have destroyed the regularity of the steps, hut nowhere injured the general figure of the square, which is as perfect in this respect as the great pyramid of Egypt. We everywhere observed broken pieces of instruments like knives, arrows, spear-heads, &c.. of obsidian, the same as these Ihund on the small hills of Cholula ; and on reaching the summit, we found a hat surface of considerable size, but which has been much broken and disturbed. On it was probably a temple or some other building ; report says, a statue covered with gold. We rested some time on the summit, erij tying one of the finest prospects imaginable, in which the city of Mexico is included. Here I hand fragments of small statues and earthenware, and what surprised me more, oyster-shells, the first I had seen in Mexico. In descending, I also found some ornamental pieces of earthenware. The pattern. one of which is in relief. much resembling those of China, the other has a grotesque human face. On the north east side, about halt' was• down, at some remote period an opening has been attempted. This should have been from the south to the north, and on a level with the ground, or onlv a few feet above it, as all the remains of similar build ings have been found to have their entrances in that direction. According to the measurements made by Dr. Uteyza, a young Mexican savant, in 1503, the base or the larger pyramid is 682 feet long, and its elevation 150 bet perpendicular ; Mr. Bullock thinks its height to be nearly half the base. The other pyramid, that of the moon, is 36 feet lower, and its base much smaller. They are constructed of clay mixed with small stones, covered with a thick fhcing of porous atnygdaloid, over which was a coating of cement. There are our stages subdivided into smaller steps ; a stair of hewn stone formerly led to their summits. Early travellers all mention the prevailing tradition, that their interior was hollow. Around them in the plain, there are several hundred smaller ones, in general about 30 feet high ; which, according to the tradition, were dedicated to the stars. It is probable, however, that the whole plain vas a vast burial-place, its Aztec name was Micaotl, the road of the dead ; which the Spaniards, borrowing a word from the language of the island of Cuba, have rendered Llano de los Cues. They are supposed to be the most ancient of all the Mexican monuments."