Pe AH CIENT MEXICAN ARCHITECTURE 
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IN THe PREHISTORIC CITY OF PALENQUE, STATE OF CHIA- 
PAS, MEXICO. 
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The ruined city of Palenque is situated in the State of 
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it stands is about 250 by 175 feet at the base and 80 feet in 
details of its construction are not well known. 
VAUENQUE 
Chiapas, southern Mexico, and furnishes remarkable examples of 
the architectural achievments of the prehistoric Bree eines. Lt 
ee decervted at the time of the son eee: so that the period of 
its construction and occupation is not known, but all are agreed 
that it belonged to the Maya race which still occupies the gen- 
This mOge er a the temple of the Gross, one of the 
Numerous imposing structures of the city. The pyramid on which > 
height, but is so covered with forest and buried by debris that 
in part with hewm stone and in part with stucco. It is 48 feet 
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The temple here showm is solidly built of rubbie masonry,faced 
