The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . CMO o P. ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 193 metrically built. It forms a quadrangle with sides of un-equal length. The north wall, without its two additions,measures forty-nine feet; the western wall, forty-four; thesouthern, forty-five; and the eastern or Lake-front, cause of these irregularities lies partly in the natureof the ground which slants considerably to the is another evidence that the builders, notwithstandingcertain advances, could not remove serious natural ob-stacles, hence, as in New Mexico and at M
The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated . CMO o P. ANCIENT RUINS ON THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 193 metrically built. It forms a quadrangle with sides of un-equal length. The north wall, without its two additions,measures forty-nine feet; the western wall, forty-four; thesouthern, forty-five; and the eastern or Lake-front, cause of these irregularities lies partly in the natureof the ground which slants considerably to the is another evidence that the builders, notwithstandingcertain advances, could not remove serious natural ob-stacles, hence, as in New Mexico and at Mitla, in Mexico,^^adapted their buildings to the ground, instead of levelingthe ground for the building. The walls, exterior as well as interior, of the Pilco-Kay-ma, vary in thickness between eighteen and forty-twoinches, and at small distances from each other. The ma-sonry is fair, the stones are laid in irregular courses, some-times breaking joints, and the blocks are of every imaginablesize, merely broken, not cut or hewn. Thin seams of mudform thei
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