MORGAN.) HOUSE OF THI NUNS. 261 
with wooden lintels, opening to apartments averaging twenty-four feet long, 
ten feet wide, seventeen feet high to the top of the arch, but having no 
connection with each other. The building that forms the right or eastern 
side of the quadrangle measures one hundred and fifty-eight feet long; that 
on the left is one hundred and seventy-three feet long, and the range oppo- 
site, or at the end of the quadrangle, measures two hundred and sixty-four 
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Fig. 53.—Ground-plan of the House of the Nuns. 
feet. These three ranges have no doorways outside, but the exterior of 
nach is a dead wall, and above the cornice all are ornamented with the 
same rich and elaborate sculptures.”? 
Altogether, these four structures contain seventy-six apartments, which 
vary in size from twenty to thirty feet long, and from ten to twelve feet 
wide. There are twenty single apartments, and twenty-five pairs of apart- 
1Tncidents of travel in Yucatan, i, 299. 
