. Guide leaflet. r islets mergedgradually into orderly grou])s,where the roots had estaldisliedancliorage in the lake l)ottom andmade more solid ground. 0])enwater remained only iji the iiariowcanals. Save for the hroad causeways,roads there were none, and along tliewaterways one saw in increasing numhershoatloads of produce lieadcd iji towardthe eity. Here and there among tlie greenone caught glimpses of thatclicd roofs andwattled walls, the huts of tlie adohe walls of more suhstantialdwellings began to encroacli on tlie gai-dens, and the waters of the lake shrunk toa canal follo
. Guide leaflet. r islets mergedgradually into orderly grou])s,where the roots had estaldisliedancliorage in the lake l)ottom andmade more solid ground. 0])enwater remained only iji the iiariowcanals. Save for the hroad causeways,roads there were none, and along tliewaterways one saw in increasing numhershoatloads of produce lieadcd iji towardthe eity. Here and there among tlie greenone caught glimpses of thatclicd roofs andwattled walls, the huts of tlie adohe walls of more suhstantialdwellings began to encroacli on tlie gai-dens, and the waters of the lake shrunk toa canal following the roadway. The adobewalls gradually were re])laced bv the frontsof houses plastered wliite or with the richdull red of ])()wdcred pumice. For the fiisttime the visitor realiz(>d how the city ex-])anded througli the artificial creation ofbeds of vegetation wliich in solidifyingbore first a crop, then a modest hut, andfinally became integral with the masonryof the city. The causeway had now changed from a. simple mejins of communication into thesocial complexity of a principal canals took the place of roads,s])ace for a saunter was so rare that thecauseways were as much recreationgrounds as arteries of trallic. Thus])eople out to see the sights, j)eo[)le onerrands, people on the way to the myriadfunctions of religious import swallowedup the long lines of trotting carriers who,bowed uiuler their burdens, went to thecity with produce and tribute, oi- left itwith goods for barter. Outside the citylimits the ant-like streams of laden folkhad been but rarely relieved by the rarepassage of a ci\il functionary, all feathersand pomp in his litter, or of a sternmerchant with a handful of fighting menfollowed by a chain of apprentices, show-ing the whites of their eyes as they peeredfrom under the press of the tumplines. AMFJncAS MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLET
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