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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



engraving above. The ground in this neighbour- 

 hood was open, and there v^ere the remains of sev- 

 eral buildings, but all prostrate and in utter ruin. 



The great cerro stands alone, the only one that 

 now rises above the plain. The sides are all fallen, 

 though in some places the remains of steps are visi- 

 ble. On the south side, about half way up, there is 

 a large tree, which facilitates the ascent to the top. 

 The height is about eighty or ninety feet. One 

 corner of a building is all that is left ; the rest of the 

 top is level and overgrown with grass. The view" 

 commanded an immense wooded plain, and, rising 

 above it, toward the southeast the great church of 



