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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 



