. Young folks library . in a paper read before the Academic des Sciencesin November, 1882; and that I should be in accordwith the eminent specialist on American antiquities isa circumstance to make me proud. I may add thatthe carving of this slab is similar to that of the crosson the famous hasso-rilievo at Palenque; so that theprobability of the two monuments having been erectedto the god of rain is much strength-ened thereby. As our slabs are far more archaicthan those at Palenque, we thinkwe are justified in calling themearlier in time — the parent sam-ples of the later ones. Nor is
. Young folks library . in a paper read before the Academic des Sciencesin November, 1882; and that I should be in accordwith the eminent specialist on American antiquities isa circumstance to make me proud. I may add thatthe carving of this slab is similar to that of the crosson the famous hasso-rilievo at Palenque; so that theprobability of the two monuments having been erectedto the god of rain is much strength-ened thereby. As our slabs are far more archaicthan those at Palenque, we thinkwe are justified in calling themearlier in time — the parent sam-ples of the later ones. Nor is ourassumption unsupported, for weshall subsequently find that thecult of Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl wascarried by the Toltecs in their dis-tant peregrinations. These slabs,therefore, and the pillars whichwere found in the village, acquire a paramount impor-tance in establishing the affiliation of Toltec settlementsin Tabasco, Yucatan, and other places, furnishing uswith further data in regard to certain monuments at Pa-. ToLTEc SepulchralStone. Exploring an Ancient Mexican Palace 37 lenque, the steles of Tikal, and the massive monolithidols of Copan. I next attacked the terraced court fronting thepalace towards the Path of Death, and the amount ofconstructions and substructures we came upon isalmost beyond behef: inclined stuccoed walls crossingeach other in all directions, flights of steps leading toterraces within the pyramid, ornaments, pottery, anddetritus; so much so that the pyramid might notimproperly be called a necropolis, in which the livinghad their dwelhngs. In a word, our campaign at Teotihuacan was as suc-cessful as our campaign at Tula. We were attendedby the same good fortune, and the reader whom suchthings may interest will find a bas-rehef of both Toltecpalaces, and of one of the tombstones, in the Trocadero. From what has been said it will be seen that themonuments at Teotihuacan were partly standing at thetime of the Conquest.
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