144 SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO, 



eggs ; — we dried our clothes, and having 

 found dry boards to repose upon, passed 

 the night in the carpenters shop better than 

 we at first expected. 



Good bread and excellent chocolate were 

 provided for our breakfast. After a stroll 

 round the city, which is said to have once 

 contained 50,000 inhabitants, we examined 

 two curious ancient columns, richly sculp- 

 tured ; called upon the padre, but he could 

 give us no information respecting the pyra- 

 mids, although they were in full view from 

 the town. We then left this wretched and 

 deserted place, where even the water is so 

 bad that necessity alone can induce any per- 

 son to use it, and proceeded towards the 

 stupendous remains, from which we were now 

 distant about a league and a half. As we 

 approached them, the square and perfect form 

 of the largest became at every step more and 

 more visibly distinct, and the terraces could 



