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mented, but the ornaments are now much decayed. 

 It has three doorways, which open into a corridor 

 running the whole width of the building ; and along 

 the top of the back wall was a stone tablet, with a 

 row of hieroglyphics extending all along the wall. 

 Many of them were defaced, and, from their height, 

 in an awkward position to copy; but we had a 

 scaffold erected, and obtained copies of the whole. 

 The plate opposite represents these hieroglyphics, 

 so far as they could be made out. When not dis- 

 tinct, to avoid misleading they are not given at all. 

 Under the hieroglyphics, in the plate, is given a plan 

 of the building, with its terrace and staircase. It 

 has a back corridor, consisting of three chambers, 

 all of which retain the marks of painting; and, 

 from the convenience of its arrangements, with the 

 platform of the terrace for a promenade, and the 

 view of a fine open country in front, but for the 

 greater convenience of being near the hacienda we 

 should have been tempted to take up our abode in it, 

 At the short distance of two hundred feet is the 

 building represented in the following engraving. 

 The platform of the terrace was sixty-four feet 

 square, the building had three rooms, but both ter- 

 race and building are ruined, and the view is pre- 

 sented only because it was so picturesque that Mr. 

 Catherwood could not resist the temptation to 

 draw it. 



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