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so as to give it the appearance of having 

 been formed of human skulls, and is divided 

 from the rest by a projecting cornice. The 

 whole is different from any thing I have ever 

 seen. At the extremity of the town is the 

 bed of a river, now dry, and forming a deep 

 ravine, over which is a remarkable bridge, 

 with a pointed arch, nearly forty feet high, 

 said to have been built by the Indians before 

 the Conquest. It is supported on one side 

 by a mass of masonry in a pyramidical shape, 

 and forms a very picturesque object wdien 

 seen from below. On our return, our Indian 

 friends pointed out to us a large area in front 

 of the church, entirely stuccoed in the ancient 

 manner, in which grew the finest olive trees 

 I ever saw. Those of Tuscany are not half 

 the size ; — they must many of them be nearly 

 thirty feet in circumference. At the end of 

 the town, beyond the walls, on the road 

 leading to Tezcuco, is a kind of broad 



