Note V-79 — Chapter V · ANTIQUITIES OF YUCATAN. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Cuts from Stephens' Yucatan, vol. ii., pp. 300-1. Terrace 55 by 62 feet; stairway 20 feet wide; building 23 by 43. Ib. 'Foundations of about twenty feet in height, which were surrounded and sustained by well-cemented walls of hewn stone with curved angles' 240 feet in circumference. Building 21 by 40 feet. 'Across these halls were beams of wood, creased as if they had been worn by hammock-ropes.' Norman's Rambles in Yuc., pp. 124-5. Foundation only two mètres high, but photograph 31 shows this to be an error. Charnay, Ruines Amér., p. 344. 'Deux petits temples (E and D), ayant leur façade au sud et à l'est; le vestibule du premier est orné d'hiéroglyphes.' Friederichsthal, in Nouvelles Annales des Voy., 1841, tom. xcii., p. 305.