An inglorious Columbus; . Fig. 23.—The temple of Boro-Budor iu Java. Figs. 23 and 24 have been inserted : the first being a copy ofthe frontispiece of Volume II of Crawfurds History of theIndian Archipelago, illustrating the temple of Boro-Budor, in. Fig. 24.—The palace or temple at Palenque, Yucatan. 604: AN INGLORIOUS COLUMBUS. Java ; and the second being a plate of the so-called palace at Palenque, Yucatan, enlarged from an illustration found onpage 394 of the second volume of the ninth edition of the En-cyclopedia Britannica —American reprint. If these engravings are compared with a repres
An inglorious Columbus; . Fig. 23.—The temple of Boro-Budor iu Java. Figs. 23 and 24 have been inserted : the first being a copy ofthe frontispiece of Volume II of Crawfurds History of theIndian Archipelago, illustrating the temple of Boro-Budor, in. Fig. 24.—The palace or temple at Palenque, Yucatan. 604: AN INGLORIOUS COLUMBUS. Java ; and the second being a plate of the so-called palace at Palenque, Yucatan, enlarged from an illustration found onpage 394 of the second volume of the ninth edition of the En-cyclopedia Britannica —American reprint. If these engravings are compared with a representation ofthe pyramids of Egypt, the dissimilarity of the latter to thestructures of Asia and America will be very apparent, and theclose resemblance of these last to each other will be brought outby the contrast. Most of the Buddhist edifices in Asia are we find the coincidence that, while most of the temples ofMexico were quadrangular,^^ those which were specially dedi-cated to Quetzalcoatl were completely circular, without anangle anywhere, ^ and were surmounted by a dome. Chiefamong the temples of Cholula was the semi-spherical structuredevoted to Quetzalcoatl, standing upon a quadrilateral moundnearly two hundred f
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