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 100 workmen. Such a temple was called by the Aztecs a Teocalli, —or holy pyramid. The first ones, constructed at different periods, had been of wood; but this one finished



by King Ahuitzotl, in 1486, was of stone—a great pyramid of earth faced with cut stone, one hundred and twenty feet high. Two altars were erected upon the