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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



between the lower and upper parts of this building, and 

 the only way of reaching the latter was by climbing 

 a tree which grows close against the wall, and the 

 branches of which spread over the roof. The roof is 

 inclined, and the sides are covered with stucco orna- 

 ments, which, from exposure to the elements, and the 

 assaults of trees and bushes, are faded and ruined, so 

 that it was impossible to draw them ; but enough re- 

 mained to give the impression that, when perfect and 

 painted, they must have been rich and imposing. 

 Along the top was a range of pillars eighteen inches 

 high and twelve apart, made of small pieces of stone 

 laid in mortar, and covered with stucco, crowning 

 which is a layer of flat projecting stones, having some- 

 what the appearance of a low open balustrade. 



In front of this building, at the foot of the pyramidal 

 structure, is a small stream, part of which supplies the 

 aqueduct before referred to. Crossing this, we come 

 upon a broken stone terrace about sixty feet on the 

 slope, with a level esplanade at the top, one hundred 

 and ten feet in breadth, from which rises another pyram- 

 idal structure, now ruined and overgrown with trees ; 

 it is one hundred and thirty-four feet high on the slope, 

 and on its summit is the building marked No. 2, like 

 the first shrouded among trees, but presented in the 

 engraving opposite as restored. The plate contains, as 

 before, the ground-plan, front elevation, section, and 

 front elevation on a smaller scale, with the pyramidal 

 structure on which it stands. 



This building is fifty feet front, thirty-one feet deep, 

 and has three doorways. The whole front was covered 

 with stuccoed ornaments. The two outer piers con- 

 tain hieroglyphics ; one of the inner piers is fallen, and 



