. American history:. ->- PLAN » OF THE IIUINS OF UXMAL. SiMile ol 300 500 600 — I I I I 1-^^. i?? c sharp angles. The several terraces were found coveredwith trees, which have been cleared away since the ex-ploration of the ruins. 2. In the middle of the second terrace is an inclined,broken, round pillar, five feet in diameter and eight feethigh. ^Two hundred and fifty feet from the front of thissecond terrace, rises a grand staircase, one hundred andthirty feet broad, and containing thirty-five steps, ascend-ing to a third terrace nineteen feet above the second.^This uppermost ter
. American history:. ->- PLAN » OF THE IIUINS OF UXMAL. SiMile ol 300 500 600 — I I I I 1-^^. i?? c sharp angles. The several terraces were found coveredwith trees, which have been cleared away since the ex-ploration of the ruins. 2. In the middle of the second terrace is an inclined,broken, round pillar, five feet in diameter and eight feethigh. ^Two hundred and fifty feet from the front of thissecond terrace, rises a grand staircase, one hundred andthirty feet broad, and containing thirty-five steps, ascend-ing to a third terrace nineteen feet above the second.^This uppermost terrace is three hundred and sixty feetlong, and nearly a hundred broad; and on its platformstands a noble stone building, of elegant proportions, threehundred and twenty-two feet in length, thirty-nine feetbroad, and twenty-four feet high. The front view of aportion of this building is represented in the annexed en-graving. (See next page.) 3. ^This front has thirteen doorways, the principal ofwhich is in the centre, opposite the range of steps leadingup the terrace. The centre door is eight feet six i
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