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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



tured beams. A great part had fallen, and it had 

 the appearance of having been wantonly destroy- 

 ed. The engraving below represents this fragment. 



The ornament, when entire, appears to have been 

 intended to represent two large eagles facing each 

 other ; on each side are seen drooping plumes of 

 feathers. The opposite end of the arch, where 

 hung the hornet's nest, had marks of stucco in the 

 same form, and probably once contained a corre- 

 sponding ornament. 



Beyond this was the great building which we had 

 set out to find. The front was still standing, in 

 some places, particularly on the corner, richly orna- 

 mented ; but the back part was a heap of ruins. In 

 the centre was a gigantic staircase leading to the 

 top, on which there was another building with two 



