. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . kl ! ILi GUAT1 MAI A. PRUIT-SE1 LERS A I \ W \N 3IO] r ; u |i ii ijMlftu i^^Ufl £*w?*c£ifcr &2 * ..I Ml MALA CATHEDRAL DOWN THE COAST TO PANAMA 297 grotesque piles of rocks, some carved to representanimals, but on the whole bearing, at this timeof year at any rate, an untidy and neglectedappearance. In another part of the park is the MinervaTemple, familiar to philatelists as forming thesubject of the current 50-cent postage stamp. Itis an imposing structure, built in commemoration ofsomething or other, but of no apparent use,
. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . kl ! ILi GUAT1 MAI A. PRUIT-SE1 LERS A I \ W \N 3IO] r ; u |i ii ijMlftu i^^Ufl £*w?*c£ifcr &2 * ..I Ml MALA CATHEDRAL DOWN THE COAST TO PANAMA 297 grotesque piles of rocks, some carved to representanimals, but on the whole bearing, at this timeof year at any rate, an untidy and neglectedappearance. In another part of the park is the MinervaTemple, familiar to philatelists as forming thesubject of the current 50-cent postage stamp. Itis an imposing structure, built in commemoration ofsomething or other, but of no apparent use, exceptfor the dances which are sometimes held in consists of a square floor, elevated some ten feetabove the ground, from which it is reached by aflight of steps, continuous round all lour this is a Grecian roof, supported by massivecolumns, but there is no enclosure of any kind. The chief attraction of Minerva Park, however,is the relief map of the republic, which is on ahorizontal scale of 1 to and a vertical oneof 1 to 2,000. There arc only two other .suchrelief maps in the worldâ
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