Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . the blocks wereheld in place by strong metal pins, for there areround holes drilled into the stones and insertionsmade to receive T clamps. The principal ruins are in a broad level part ofthe plain where the soil is firm and dry. They con-sist of rows of erect, roughly-shaped monoliths,sections of foundations, portions of giant stairways,monolithic doorways, some bearing carvings in lowrelief, monolithic statues, and innumerable smallcut stones s
Across South America; an account of a journey from Buenos Aires to Lima by way of Potosí, with notes on Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru . the blocks wereheld in place by strong metal pins, for there areround holes drilled into the stones and insertionsmade to receive T clamps. The principal ruins are in a broad level part ofthe plain where the soil is firm and dry. They con-sist of rows of erect, roughly-shaped monoliths,sections of foundations, portions of giant stairways,monolithic doorways, some bearing carvings in lowrelief, monolithic statues, and innumerable smallcut stones strewn about on all sides. Great stone platforms, weighing many tons,aroused our keenest curiosity. One looks aroundthe plain in vain for a near-by quarry from whichthey could have come. The most natural supposi-tion is that they must have been quarried on thespot from ledges outcropping here, for it would seemscarcely possible that blocks twenty feet long, tenfeet wide, and four feet thick could have been trans-ported any distance** by the primitive methods atthe disposal of those prehistoric people. The ruinswere much more complete in 1875 ^t. GREAT PLATFORMS OF STONE WEIGHING MANY IONS
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