The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan . -, 0°^^ *30. 182 THE AMERICAN EGYPT the first and the second ruins were the remains of two morebuildings, but these were so shattered as to defy any attemptsat a suggestion of what they had been like. At the back ofthe first set, standing isolated in the bush, was a remarkablemonolithic rounded pillar close on 9 feet high. The second group of ruins stands away some three-quartersof a mile through the woods to the westward. We wereattracted thither by the appearance of a gigantic clump oftrees towering up above the others as if marking the sp
The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan . -, 0°^^ *30. 182 THE AMERICAN EGYPT the first and the second ruins were the remains of two morebuildings, but these were so shattered as to defy any attemptsat a suggestion of what they had been like. At the back ofthe first set, standing isolated in the bush, was a remarkablemonolithic rounded pillar close on 9 feet high. The second group of ruins stands away some three-quartersof a mile through the woods to the westward. We wereattracted thither by the appearance of a gigantic clump oftrees towering up above the others as if marking the spot ofsome ancient mounds. On arrival there we found that itdid not consist of one mound but three, all joining at theirbase and of rough unhewn stone. They averaged about40 feet in height. On the ground-level at the side of themstood a small one-roomed house, probably the home of a priestor custodian whose duty was to watch over these mounds were remarkable not only by the fact of theirqueer juxtaposition but for the fact that on careful examina-
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