Note VI-20 — Chapter VI · ANTIQUITIES OF TABASCO AND CHIAPAS, RUINS OF PALENQUE.

Plates illustrating the corridors may be found as follows: Waldeck, pl. ix., view of doorway c from b, showing two of the medallions, one of which is filled up with a portrait in stucco, and is probably a restoration; the view extends through the doorways c and d, across the court to the building C. The same plate gives also a view of the outer corridor lengthwise looking northward. Pl. x. gives an elevation of the east side of the inner corridor, and a section of both corridors. Pl. xi., fig. 1, shows the details of one of the shaped niches. Stephens, vol. ii., p. 313—sketch corresponding to Waldeck's pl. ix., copied in Morelet's Travels, and taken from the latter for my work. Dupaix, pl. xviii., fig. 25, shows the different forms of niches and windows found in the Palace, all of which are given in my cut. 'A double gallery of eighty yards in length, sustained by massive pillars, opened before us.' Morelet, Voyage, tom. i., pp. 265-6; Travels, p. 87. The square niches with their cylinders are spoken of by Waldeck, Voy. Pitt., pp. 71-2, as 'gonds de pierre.' 'Quant aux ouvertures servant de fenêtres, elles sont petites et généralement d'une forme capricieuse, environnées, à l'intérieur des édifices, d'arabesques et de dessins en bas-relief, parfois fort gracieux.' Brasseur de Bourbourg, Hist. Nat. Civ., tom. i., p. 92. Principal walls 4 feet thick, others less. Dupaix, p. 15.