TERRACES AND BUILDINGS. 



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roughly made, with square capitals, like Doric, but 

 wanting the grandeur pertaining to all known re- 

 mains of this ancient order. Filling up the spaces 

 between the doorways are four small columns cu- 

 riously ornamented, close together, and sunk in the 

 wall. Between the first and second and third and 

 fourth doorways a small staircase leads to the ter- 

 race of the third range. The platform of this ter- 

 race is thirty feet in front and twenty-five in the rear. 

 The building is one hundred and fifty feet long by 

 eighteen feet deep, and has seven doorways opening 

 into as many apartments. The lintels over the door- 

 ways are of stone. 



The exterior of the third and highest range was 

 plain ; that of the two other ranges had been elab- 

 orately ornamented ; and, in order to give some idea 

 of their character, I present opposite a portion of 

 the facade of the second range. Among designs 

 common in other places is the figure of a man sup- 

 porting himself on his hands, with his legs expand- 

 ed in a curious rather than delicate attitude, of which 

 a small portion appears on the right of the engra- 

 ving ; and again we have the " large and very well 

 constructed buildings of lime and stone" which 

 Bernal Dias saw at Campeachy, "with figures of 

 serpents and of idols painted on the walls." 



The following engraving represents the ground 

 plan of the three ranges, and gives the dimensions of 

 the terraces. The platforms are wider in front than 

 in the rear; the apartments vary from twenty-three to 



