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because we tried it. As marvelous, too, is the echo that travels back 
and forth between the side walls, a distance of 120 feet or more. Clap 
your hands smartly and the echo comes back, 18 times repeated in gradually 
diminishing volume. This, we tried too. Though we did not count them all, 
the echoes were often enough repeated eo that we accepted as correct our 
guide’s statement as to the nunfcer. 
The Chlchen It 2 a Ball Court certainly must rank as one of the acoustic 
wonders of the world. Brilliantly conceived, when one realizes that it 
served also as a great, roofless auditorium, its marvelous acoustic proper- 
ties can be no accident of design, or of construction. The priests and 
the architects of Mayaland knew what they were about in those early days 
when it came to acoustics, art, and architecture! 
The two days we spent at Chichen Itza included visits to the Temple 
of the Warriors and the thousand columns, the Nunnery, and a host of lesser 
buildings. Regrettably we had even less time at Uxmal with its outstanding 
House of the Governor and its towering steep-sided House of the Magician. 
This pyramid is unique in that its base is elliptical in outline, 2h0 by 
l60 feet. It rises 80 feet to the upper platform, which is crowned by a 
20-foot high temple, Uxmal is more truly Mayan in its architecture than 
Chichen Itza where the Mexican Toltee Influence, A ,D. 950-1200, left its 
impress. Chichen Itza, according to Tozzer, "had a longer recorded history, 
aneient or modern, in all America.” (See also footnote ^ *) 
The late Sylvanus G. Morley, and his colleagues formerly with the 
