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standing monoliths. For a moment we were puszled 
by a curious scaffolding ard platiora Bome 20 feet in height 
erected against the face of the elaborately sculptured «tele. 
founted on this platform and protected from the sun by an 
improvised shelter of palm leaves we de@ried the figure 
of aman posing before a large danvas. It proved to be. 
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dr. Joseph Linden Smith, the master portrayer of ancivnt 
monuments engaged in painting the portrait of the nys terious 
personage carved in high relief on the face of the monument,” 
It thus. happens that for the first time the antiquity-. 
loving world is to behold these wondrous sculptures depicted 
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in their true colors and by a hand which does not fail to 
render with entire exactitude, It was a happy thought that 
led to the reproduction of the several paintings completed 
by Mr, Smith in the present number of the Magazine, for 
it is the School of American ‘rchaeology under the direction 
of Doctor Hewett wiiich has done sore than all other agencies 
