zi sghleie ere — — nie PRG ee i Steg tas Scns wi ps rie 
fe ioe es devices. Ciheas are rie out in a kind of mosaic, 
setting into the ne jee a multitude of accurately cut 
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stones placed in and out in such a way as to form patterns in re- 
lief. I estimate that in one group of buildings upwards of 100,000 — 
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pieces of cut st one measuring only a few inches in length and 
- breadth and of extremely varied shape,have been used. The stones 
used in the walls generally are of medium sige and the lintels, 
door jambs and certain beam-stones and columns are very large, the 
lintels measuring in many cases as much as 20 feet in length and 
| from two to four feet in the other dimensions. Sculpture, in the 
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a ordinary nenaey © was 8 practically funknown to these builders./ The 
i. (Bh greets ea pt ANCES EES PEPPER ae emmys GREY METI Om RT ane 
ae this stone cutting is that metal was practically un- 
_; known to these peoples and we are bound to assume that the vast 
- work was accomplished with stone tools. I was fortunate in securing 
4 much evidence upon this point and coneluded that there is no spe-~ 
 cifie distinction between the work done at Mitla and that of the 
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_ soapstone workers of Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. That 
tone todls were extensively if not exclusively used and that the 
