Photo by \'aldcavellano & Co. 



A FALLING MONUMENT 



These preat monoliths, some of which are as much as 26 feet high, were quarried from 

 the foothills two miles west of the city, and were probably transported thither on rafts 

 during the rainy season, when the greater part of the valley is submerged by the overflow 

 of the Motagua River (see text, page 354). 



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