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So far, although the fragments of sculpture were 

 of the same general character as at Uxmal, we had 

 not found any edifice sufficiently entire to enable us 

 to identify that peculiar arch which we had found 

 in all the ruined buildings of this country; but 

 it was not wanting. At some distance from this 

 place, and on the other side of the hacienda, were 

 long ranges of mounds. These had once been 

 buildings, the tops of which had fallen, and almost 

 buried the structures. At the end was a doorway, 

 encumbered and half filled with rubbish, crawl- 

 ing through which, we stood upright in apartments 

 exactly similar to those at Uxmal, with the arch 

 formed of stones overlapping, and a flat stone cover- 

 ing the top. The apartments were ruder and nar- 

 rower, but they were of precisely the same charac- 

 ter with all the others we had seen. 



The day was now nearly spent ; with the heat 

 and labour we were exceedingly fatigued, and the 

 Indians insisted that we had seen all the principal 

 remains. The place was so overgrown with trees 

 that it would have taken a long time to clear them 

 away, and for the present at least it was out of the 

 question. Besides, the only result we could prom- 

 ise ourselves was the bringing to light of fragments 

 and single pieces of buried sculpture. Of one thing, 

 however, we had no doubt : the ruins of this city 

 were of the same general character with those at 

 Uxmal, erected by the same builders, probably of 

 older date, and suffering more from the corrosion of 



