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were delighted with the fresh breeze blowing in from the sea and 
with the charming prospect and above all the marvelous color of 
the sea which was banded with crystalline purples and greens and 
beyond was the low aves Island with its stone temples at the 
South and almost exactly east of us. Inland we could sew ene 
the forest with now and then a palm rising out of the dense moss 
of verdure. 
Much dilapidated and ruined and covered with shrubs and trees 
it was at first difficult to secure a clear notion of the ruin 
but we soon discovered that in general form it is a stepped pyra- 
mid support ing a ruined temple or super-structure at the top, a 
broad steep stairway, reaching from the east base to the terrace 
upon which this super-structure stands. The full height to the 
top of the ruined walls is about forty feet, the main ruins 
measuring some sixty feet from east to west and seventy-five from 
north to southe ‘The ground plan loses its symmetry as a result of 
the varying width of the terrace and by the unsymmetric addition 
at the 5. Ke and N.iit corners. 
