MAGNIFICENT EDIFICE. 



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but now wilfully destroyed. The plate opposite 

 represents this front. The buildings around the 

 area formed a great irregular pile, measuring in all 

 two hundred feet in length. The plan was dif- 

 ferent from that of any we had seen, but, having so 

 many subjects to present, 1 have not had it en- 

 graved. 



Nortlieast from the mound on which the great 

 wall stands, and about one hundred and fifty yards 

 distant, is a large building, erected on a terrace, and 

 hidden among the trees growing thereupon, with its 

 front much ruined, and having but few remains of 

 sculptured ornaments. Still farther in the same di- 

 rection, going through the woods, we reach the 

 grand, and, without extravagance, the really magnifi- 

 cent building represented in the frontispiece to this 

 volume. It stands on a gigantic terrace, four hun- 

 dred feet long and one hundred and fifty feet deep. 

 The whole terrace is covered with buildings. The 

 front represented measures two hundred and eighty- 

 two feet in length. It consisted of three distinct 

 parts, differing in style, and perhaps erected at dif- 

 ferent times. At a distance, as seen indistinctly 

 through the trees, we had no idea of its extent. We 

 came upon it at the corner which appears on the 

 right in the engraving. Our guide cut a path along 

 the front wall, and stopping, as we did, to look at 

 the ornaments, and entering the apartments as we 

 went along, the building seemed immense. 



The whole long facade w^as ornamented with 



