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World, with the added mystery that we have no tangible clue to the 
builders of the great mounds in the Mississippi Valley, and can only 
speculate as to the name and fate of the civilized race or races that 
| built the pyramids, palaces and temples that excite the wonder of the 
| traveler along the Cordilleras or the wanderer through the broken hills 
and jungles of Yucatan. = 
But it is not on the mainland alone that these interesting ruins are 
to befound. Professor W. H. Holmes, though not the first to call atten- 
tion to the fact, shows us and illustrates his statements by a map which 
we reproduce, that the girdle of islands along the east and south coasts 
of Yucatan, share in the ruined wonders of the mainland. This parti- 
cularly applies to the islands of Contoy, Mugeres, Cancun, and Cozu- 
mel, which islands have not received from students of archeology the 
attention they deserve. 
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