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building, and stood apart in lonely grandeur, seldom 

 disturbed by human footsteps. On going up to it 

 once Mr. Catherwood started a deer, and at another 

 time a wild hog. 



At the northeast angle of this building is a vast 

 range of high, ruined terraces, facing east and west, 

 nearly eight hundred feet long at the base, and call- 

 ed the Campo Santo. On one of these is a build- 

 ing of two stories, with some remains of sculpture, 

 and in a deep and overgrown valley at the foot, the 

 Indians say, was the burial-place of this ancient 

 city ; but, though searching for it ourselves, and of- 

 fering a reward to them for the discovery, we never 

 found in it a sepulchre. 



Besides these there was the Casa de la Vieja, or 

 the House of the Old Woman, standing in ruins. 

 Once, when the wind was high, I saw the remains 

 of the front wall bending before its force. It is four 

 or five hundred feet from the Casa del Gobernador, 

 and has its name from a mutilated statue of an old 

 woman lying before it. 



Near by are other monuments lying on the 

 ground, overgrown and half buried (referred to in 

 the Appendix), which were pointed out to us by 

 the Indians on our first visit. North of this 

 there is a circular mound of ruins, probably of a 

 circular building like that of Mayapan. A wall 

 which was said to encompass the city is laid down 

 on the plan so far as it can be traced ; and beyond 

 this, for a great distance in every direction, the 



