The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . go by Suarez of Tcnosique,and has been visited at different times by monteros and byBalay de Palisada. It has been called Phantom city, froma passage in Stephens Journal,* in which he reproduces a con-versation with the merry Cura of Santa Cruz del Quiche^, whotold of a great Indian city four days journey from SantaCruz, on the road to Mexico, as being densely populated, andin the same condition as other places of Central America. He Stephens, second vol. of Central America and Y
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . go by Suarez of Tcnosique,and has been visited at different times by monteros and byBalay de Palisada. It has been called Phantom city, froma passage in Stephens Journal,* in which he reproduces a con-versation with the merry Cura of Santa Cruz del Quiche^, whotold of a great Indian city four days journey from SantaCruz, on the road to Mexico, as being densely populated, andin the same condition as other places of Central America. He Stephens, second vol. of Central America and Yucatan. L()Kir,LAKi) Town 437 I JINOSIOUH ROUTE THROUGH MEXICO FROM TENOSIQUEtotheRUINSofLORILLARD tiy Dosii-c r Lit] Scale nfi:n;lish Miles > \Culacte .,_ nil dc Colut I\l)ltlc ^ , % Encamp incut Glade^ Dry Watci cotine ^ ^Cholak J=^fe -•?X^Scao -t\ \ Janie c \ V h^^?H->J-osCallejoncs /oSdn Xcna)icio . ^^ La Pit a •ij?c/ititj/r,, J~^ pl/^^-i ^ . •* \ Road to ^^^^^ \ ??-?^->r-—- Aqnada deRc^^^^^hi ^^nfadoygrcJ_^j^(\^^scs ^ Nortli f / South. MAP TAKEN FROM THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. had heard of it at Chayul many years before, where he hadascended the Sierra, whence the vast panorama of Yucatan andTabasco to the sea could easily be distinguished, and that he 43^ The Ancient Cities of the New World. had seen In the far distance a city occupying an immense space,its white towers shininof in the sun, I do not think that this mysterious city, if ever it was inexistence, is Lorillard, for its bearings do not agree with thoseof the American traveller ; but there are many others in theforests, and monteros may come upon palaces which will answerthe description of the cura, who assured Stephens that thepalaces of Santa Cruz del Quiche, which in 1841 were foundin an advanced state of dilapidation, were in a perfect state ofpreservation thirty years before, and that they had remindedhim of the buildings of his own country ; th
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