THE COURTYARD. 



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Plan of the Courtyard. 



to be seen among its ruins. This courtyard is two 

 hundred and fourteen feet wide, and two hundred 

 and fifty-eight feet deep. At the time of our first 

 entrance it was overgrown with bushes and grass, 

 quails started up from under our feet, and, with a 

 whirring flight, passed over the tops of the build- 

 ings. Whenever we went to it, we started flocks 

 of these birds, and throughout the whole of our 

 residence at Uxmal they were the only disturbers 

 of its silence and desolation. 



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