ARCHED GATEWAY. 



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a crack had already separated the remaining portion; it 

 is only a question of a few years when the whole of this 

 wonderful building will be a mere shapeless mound. 



At the distance of a few hundred feet from this 

 structure was an arched gateway, remarkably beautiful in 

 its proportions and grace of ornament. On the right, run 

 ning off at an angle of thirty-five degrees, was a long build- 

 ing much in ruins. On the left it formed an angle with an- 

 other building. The gateway was ten feet wide, and fifteen 

 feet high, passing through which we entered a spacious 



KUINED BUILDING. 



courtyard overgrown with weeds and small trees. The 

 doors of the apartments on both sides of the gateway, each 

 twelve feet by eight, opened upon this area. Above the 

 cornice, the face of the building was rich in sculpture. The 

 buildings around the courtyard formed a great irregular pile, 

 measuring in alltwo hundred feet in length. 



Northeast from the mound on which stood the great 

 wall, and about one hundred and sixty yards distant, was a 

 large building, erected on a terrace, and hidden among the 

 trees growing upon it, with its front much ruined. Still 

 further in the same direction was another large building of 

 really magnificent proportions. It stood on a large terrace, 

 four hundred feet long and one hundred and fifty feet deep. 

 The whole terrace was covered with buildings. The front 

 of the building measured two hundred and eighty feet in 



