The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . SECTION OF PRINCIPAL HALL OF THE PALACE, with a cut of the same hall restored by Viollet-le-Duc, who saysof this monument: The three doorways, opening into the great apartment withcolumns, were partly walled up after the erection of the building,. o-^^ ^-cs^-^ GREAT RESTORED (MITLA). but are plainly visible. Over the doorways are four round holes,into which were probably fixed hooks supporting a monuments of Greece and Rome, in their best time, canalone compare
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . SECTION OF PRINCIPAL HALL OF THE PALACE, with a cut of the same hall restored by Viollet-le-Duc, who saysof this monument: The three doorways, opening into the great apartment withcolumns, were partly walled up after the erection of the building,. o-^^ ^-cs^-^ GREAT RESTORED (MITLA). but are plainly visible. Over the doorways are four round holes,into which were probably fixed hooks supporting a monuments of Greece and Rome, in their best time, canalone compare with the splendour of this great edifice. Theornamentation is arranged with perfect symmetry, the joints arecarefully cut, the beds and arris of the cornices faultless, showing 504 The Ancient Cities of the New World. that the builders were masters of their art. The hntels in thismonument consist, Hke those of Greece and Rome, of largeblocks of stone ; the ornamentation is a series of varied panels,set in elegant frames, composed of small stones beautifully cut,arranged in meanders, trellis-work, and diversified in their com-binations. The distinguished architect ascribes these monuments,as also those of Yucatan and lower Mexico, to a branch of thesouthern civilisation (Malays), separated from the parent stock,and crossed many times with whites. It wil
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