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mound on which it stands. The exterior is of plain 

 stone, ten feet high to the top of the lower cornice, 

 and fourteen more to that of the upper one. The 

 door faces the west, and over it is a lintel of stone. 

 The outer wall is five feet thick ; the door opens 

 into a circular passage three feet wide, and in the 

 centre is a cylindrical solid mass of stone, without 

 any doorway or opening of any kind. The whole 

 diameter of the building is twenty-five feet, so that, 

 deducting the double width of the wall and passage, 

 this centre mass must be nine feet in thickness. 

 The walls had four or five coats of stucco, and there 

 were remains of painting, in which red, yellow, 

 blue, and white were distinctly visible. 



On the southwest side of the building, and on a 

 terrace projecting from the side of the mound, was 

 a double row of columns eight feet apart, of which 

 only eight remained, though probably, from the frag- 

 ments around, there had been more, and, by clear- 

 ing away the trees, more might have been found 

 still standing. In our hurried visit to Uxmal, we 

 had seen objects which we supposed might have 

 been intended for columns, but were not sure ; and 

 though we afterward saw many, we considered 

 these the first decided columns we had seen. They 

 were two feet and a half in diameter, and consisted 

 of five round stones, eight or ten inches thick, laid 

 one upon another. They had no capitals, and 

 what particular connexion they had with the build- 

 ing did not appear. 



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