THREADING A LABYRINTH. 



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passed, and which ran north eight or ten yards ; at 

 the end was a doorway on the right, opening into a 

 gallery that ran east. At the end of this were six 

 steps, each one foot high and two wide, leading to 

 another gallery, which ran north twelve yards. At 

 the end there came another gallery on the left, which 

 ran west ten yards, and at the end of this another 

 on the right, running north about sixty feet. This 

 passage was walled up at the north end, and at the 

 distance of five yards from this end another door- 

 way led into a passage running to the east. At the 

 distance of four yards a gallery crossed this at right 

 angles, running north and south, forty-five feet long, 

 and walled up at both ends ; and three or four yards 

 farther on another gallery crossed it, also running 

 north and south. This last was walled up at the 

 south, and on the north led to still another gallery, 

 which ran east, three yards long. This was stop- 

 ped by another gallery crossing it, running to the 

 south three yards, when it was walled up, and to 

 the north eight yards, when it turned to the west. 



In utter ignorance of the ground, I found myself 

 turning and doubling along these dan-k and narrow 

 passages, which seemed really to have no end, and 

 justly to entitle the place to its name of El Labe- 

 rinto. 



I was not entirely free from the apprehension of 

 starting some wild animal, and moved slowly and 

 very cautiously. In the mean time, in turning the 

 corners, my twine would be entangled, and the In- 



