Mexico to-day, a country with a great future; and a glance at the prehistoric remains and antiquities of the Montezumas . the summit of the Pyramid of the Sun the outline of thesurrounding ruins beneath is easily traced. This pyramid has abase of 682 feet long, and is 180 feet high. That the reader maycompare it in imagination with the Pyramids of Egypt, the greatPyramid of Cheops is 728 feet at the base, and 448 feet high. ThePyramid of the Moon is rather less, and is due north from that ofthe Sun. The principal road or street before alluded to runs in asouth-westerly direction some four or f
Mexico to-day, a country with a great future; and a glance at the prehistoric remains and antiquities of the Montezumas . the summit of the Pyramid of the Sun the outline of thesurrounding ruins beneath is easily traced. This pyramid has abase of 682 feet long, and is 180 feet high. That the reader maycompare it in imagination with the Pyramids of Egypt, the greatPyramid of Cheops is 728 feet at the base, and 448 feet high. ThePyramid of the Moon is rather less, and is due north from that ofthe Sun. The principal road or street before alluded to runs in asouth-westerly direction some four or five miles to the hills ; it iscut nearly at right angles about its middle point by the VeraCruz Eailway. In moving from one part of the ruins to another we passedover several fields from which some crop had lately been cut,and where the land was being ploughed for maize. We soondiscovered it might be worth our while to dismount from ourhorses and follow the plough for what it might turn up. Theground was a mass of broken pottery and small clay heads ofidols, some with ornamental head-dresses, and others quite plain,.
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