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were thirty-nine feet deep, and had each a single doorway. 

 The sculptured ornaments were very much simpler on the 

 ends and rear than those in front. The roof was flat and 

 was originally cemented, but the cement had become broken, 

 and the whole was now covered with a mass of vegetation. 

 There were eleven doorways in front and one at each end. 

 The doors were all gone, and the wooden lintels had rotted 

 away and fallen. In front and in the center were grand 

 flights of steps ascending the three terraces, but they were 

 in a ruinous condition. 



The interior was divided longitudinally by a wall into 

 two corridors, and these again, by cross partitions, into ob- 

 long rooms. These rooms communicated with the exterior 

 by doorways, the inner one being exactly opposite the 

 outer one. The floor was of cement, in many places broken, 

 and covered all over with fallen debris from the ceiling and 

 walls. 



The terraces upon which stood the Casa del Gohernador 

 were very interesting, and a description of the building 

 would not be complete without a description also of these 

 terraces. The lowest was three feet high, fifteen feet 

 broad (it formed part of a shelving mound), and five hun- 

 dred and seventy-five feet long; the second was twenty feet 

 high, two hundred and fifty feet wide, and five hundred and 

 forty-five feet in length; the third was nineteen feet high, 

 thirty feet broad, and three hundred and sixty feet long. 

 The second terrace was still in a good state of preservation, 

 but the others were more or less in ruins. The whole was 

 covered with a rank growth of bushes, weeds, and small trees, 

 so we were not able to well make out all the characters. 



To the left of the House of the Governor rose a gigantic 

 mound, sixty-five feet in height, and three hundred at the 

 base. Its sides were covered with a rank growth of vege- 

 tation, which helped not a little in its ascent. On the top 



