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the second (B) was four feet wide, three feet deep, and 
perhaps sixteen feet high; the third (C) was four feet 
nine inches wide, two feet nine inches deep, and eighteen 
feet high. Both B and C stood on irregular ends, and the 
tops of all were left much as they came from the quarry. 
Two taller ones stood on the opposite side of the clearing. 
Monolith at Quirigua, F. 
One (F) was inclined (as it was to a much less extent 
when Mr. Catherwood made his drawing, forty years ago), 
and the under side has been protected from the weather, 
so that the face is well preserved, the large nose being 
intact. This face, unlike the one on the opposite side, is 
below the general level of the sculptures, suggesting a 
